ICANN is not a "membership based" organization. Thus, there's no easy way to remove the board, especially for domain registrants who don't even have standing. Most are appointed through the Nominating Committee, which operates in secret --- basically insiders appointing other insiders.
http://nomcom.icann.org/
I'm not seeing many new comments being posted on the ICANN comment forum. If you have sent in a comment, be sure to watch for a followup email from ICANN that contains a link that you must click for verification, otherwise your comment won't make it into the comments archive (i.e. it would be junked as spam).
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Originally Posted by Doc Com  George, Perhaps putting time and effort into an open letter that each member could copy and submit would be a start. |
That's called "astroturfing" and isn't a good idea --- better to have individual comments from each person.
http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archiv...4/3505675.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
Lots of uninformed and identical comments were mass-emailed last time by folks unfamiliar with the issues, and that didn't help the cause much.
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Plus, being in the exclusive section? Seems like this would involve everyone and be of concern to all.
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It was moved, so now everyone can see it. The original post I made in "News" got tripped up by moderation, so I duplicated it in Exclusive (which has now been moved back to News).
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Obviously, this is a pure blatant money grab to begin with. ICANN is so ineffective. The new gTLD program is going to be one huge mess.
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Indeed, and the money that is being grabbed is coming from the pockets of registrants, i.e.
ALL OF US!
You'll note most registrars have said nothing about all this -- many are lining up to become registry operators too, to join in the cash grab.