Governments call for ban on gTLD auctions (1.Viewing)

Governments are calling for a ban on new gTLD contention sets being settled via private auctions, a practice that allowed many tens of millions of dollars to change hands in the last application round.

ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee said in its ICANN 77 communique that it formally advises ICANN: “To ban or strongly disincentivize private monetary means of resolution of contention sets, including private auctions.”

Private auctions typically see the losers split the winner’s winning bid among themselves. The GAC endorsed the At-Large Advisory Committee’s recommendation that applicants should be forced to ICANN-run “last resort” auctions, where ICANN gets all the money, instead.

Read more: Governments call for ban on gTLD auctions - Domain Incite

Gee, big surprise that an ICANN advisory committee wants to let ICANN get all the money from gtLD auctions.

Never saw that coming.

And I love the title that suggests all world governments are protesting the auction process, banging on the doors of ICANN HQ with their pitchforks and torches... when it's ICANN itself that is suggesting that ICANN should get all the money.

Kevin Murphy is such a major shill for ICANN, but I still can't believe the utter crap he posts.

They want piece of the pie.

silentg said:

They want piece of the pie.

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They want the entire pie, and are using their shill writers (like Kevin Murphy) to obfuscate the fact that ICANN is suggesting all this BS, not the world's governments.