full-disclosure - Petition against VeriSlime's DNS abuse

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Message-ID: <1063896969.3306.23.camel@tantor.nuclearelephant.com>
From: jonathan at nuclearelephant.com (Jonathan A. Zdziarski)
Subject: Petition against VeriSlime's DNS abuse

Let me rephrase.  The systems (both physical systems and the rules
governing the public systems) that allow Verisign to impose
anti-competitive business practices on the community, such as blocking
domain names that have expired from being deleted, wildcards for certain
TLDs, etc., should be brought under one community-driven system where
Verisign would either have to play by our rules or risk losing their
relationship (and ability to register domains).  In order for this to
happen, we need to replace GTLD-SERVERS.NET  and any other commercially
owned "dot-this" registires with servers owned by this community-run
organization that doesn't exist yet pushing both the responsibility and
the power back to the community.  

e.g.  What I'm saying is the commercialism of the ".com" market has
resulted in the serious needing of a design overhaul of the entire
Internet Naming space to restore a pro-competitive market....a redesign
that puts all TLDs in control of the non-commercial Internet community. 
If it were that only Verisign could register .com's and .net's people
would be up in arms over the monopoly... but what a lot of people don't
realize is all the "alternative" companies out there that are selling
.com's and .net's are completely under Verisign's control.  We've
shifted from a neutral government-contracted entity (InterNIC) to a
commercial entity and now have some serious Anti-Competitive issues that
need dealing with.  I agree this is somewhat extreme, but IMHO this move
to commercialization of the Internet was equally as extreme.

> Please be clear about this:  "root registry" != ".COM/.NET registry".  The
> "." domain "root" servers *are* under decentralized, and partly non-profit,
> control.  Some of the root operators have publicly expressed disapproval
> and/or disgust at VeriSign's move.
> 
> It's "GTLD-SERVERS.NET", which is owned by VeriSign and serves the "COM."
> and "NET." zones, which have been futzed in this way.
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