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2016-12-27

Posted by Fred 2016-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 If you have an online business or a popular website please note the following. ICANN, recently relegated to international groups by President Barack Obama, is now beginning to charge exorbitant fees to register or renew what they are now labeling "Premium" websites (domain names). Some fees so far as high as $35,000.00 a year. (For example: www.Documents.legal that has not yet been taken, ICANN is demanding $20,000.00 rather than the common $12 per year).

The danger in this is if they decide www.Rantburg.com is a "Premium" website, they can demand tens of thousands of dollars a year for him to renew this site.

File a formal complaint against ICANN with your state consumer protection agency or attorney general's office or both and with the Better Business Bureau. Contact conservative outlets about this atrocity as I am sure they will be targeted as well by ICANN.

Pushing ICANN out to "International" groups takes away your constitutionally protected free speech rights on the internet. And they can now shut you down immediately via exorbitant renewal fees.

Posted by Flereper Grundy7289 2016-12-27 00:31|| 2016-12-27 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 If ICANN destabilizes internet commerce with price gouging the Domain Name System must be returned to US control BY FORCE if necessary.

Posted by Nero White 3083 2016-12-27 06:05|| 2016-12-27 06:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Poisoning of public DNS has already begun.
We will soon see restricted local (homenet) services, but what better way to trim (censor) objectionable traffic?

Soon we'll do it like the darkies do, building our own LDAP with IP crawlers.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-27 09:48|| 2016-12-27 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Go to the Dark Web, i.e.: rantburg.onion.

Of course it will require tor to access, but may not be a bad thing.

AFAIK, ICANN has no control over onion sites.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2016-12-27 11:41|| 2016-12-27 11:41|| Front Page Top

#5 To hell with the Internet. Set up a bank of old fashioned modems.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-12-27 12:14|| 2016-12-27 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Set up a bank of old fashioned modems

Jeez, I miss how they sounded....not.

Tor can be your friend.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-12-27 17:10|| 2016-12-27 17:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Can you whistle 1200 baud?

-- Hacker test.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-12-27 17:30|| 2016-12-27 17:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Some us can b a rely type, let alone "torrent". Whatever that is! We'll need a bunch of help if it goes that way.

Posted by illeagle 2016-12-27 18:56|| 2016-12-27 18:56|| Front Page Top

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