On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 06:34 AM, Swerve wrote:
When does the .com/net stewardship come up for renewal?
how many years?
next time 'round let's leave Verisign out of the bidding. Funny how they've managed to hang onto it this long.
I have no respect for Verisign.
I have very little respect for Icann.
What you need to realize is that the original ICANN-Verisign contract written by Joe Sims was so full of cock-up's that ICANN had to go crawling back to Verisign, tail between it's legs, to get some clauses re-done. Verisign, of course, took this opportunity to get their .com "stewardship" changed to a perpetual one. Funnily enough, Joe Sims ALSO did the re-write, got paid TWICE and walked away from ICANN with a pocket full of cash.
Good job ICANN!
