• catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    8 hours ago

    There is a business layer of middle-men who do not need to exist.

    ICANN is in the business of running the Internet, not fielding tech support calls from Jones’ BBQ and Foot Massage. I’m fine with this layer of separation. Hell, if it was one massive company controlling all the domains worldwide, wouldn’t that monopoly be an order of magnitude worse?

    • Mojave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 minutes ago

      I don’t mean interacting directly with ICANN. I mean directly interacting with registries, like Verisign.

      They control the .com top level domain. They do not interact with consumers, and require you to use a third-layer of registrars to interface with them.

      ICANN shouldn’t get into the direct-to-consumer business, that is true and not the issue I am speaking about.