On 8/16/2024 7:50 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
We moved from a system where Jon Postel gave you a name which you were unlikely to ever lose to one that has been captured by rent seeking. And thanks to EFF's grandstanding, the one organization that should have absolutely nothing to do with registering names is defacto funded/underwritten by the .org registry.
Regardless of the business model of the "DNS industry", we also had to deal with trade marks. Even if IANA had given you a DNS name "for life", you could not prevent a trademark owner from suing you if they believed you were using their mark, and sometimes you would lose.
-- Christian Huitema
