"The secondary problem here, which is more in tune with the original article, is that the US government "assumes" ownership and control of generic TLDs as a God given right."
Well, they did create the whole system (or funded it, at least).
"I'm happy to see lots of generic TLDs being used rather than geographical ccTLDs, but just not in the hands of one country."
There's nothing to prevent the creation of new TLDs managed however you want (and in fact quite a few have been so created). It's a hassle, and expensive, but that just strengthens the point. The U.S. government (and its fundees) went through the hassle and expense of creating .com, .edu, and the others (and indeed the Internet itself). Why do you feel that others have some sort of moral right to chunks of those namespaces?
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"The secondary problem here, which is more in tune with the original article, is that the US government "assumes" ownership and control of generic TLDs as a God given right."
Well, they did create the whole system (or funded it, at least).
"I'm happy to see lots of generic TLDs being used rather than geographical ccTLDs, but just not in the hands of one country."
There's nothing to prevent the creation of new TLDs managed however you want (and in fact quite a few have been so created). It's a hassle, and expensive, but that just strengthens the point. The U.S. government (and its fundees) went through the hassle and expense of creating .com, .edu, and the others (and indeed the Internet itself). Why do you feel that others have some sort of moral right to chunks of those namespaces?
Here's a list of the ones that are under review right now:
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-resu...