Internet users using unsecured WiFi connections are the next vicitims after Cyber Cafe owners, whose connections have been found to be used by Terrorists Outfits claiming responsiblity for various blasts in the country. In view of such threats, TRAI has issued various instructions to the ISPs to be followed by WiFi users to make sure there is connection is fully secured and there is no possibility of mis-use.
ICANN and Verisign recently announced a proposed
settlement of their pending litigation (Verisign had sued ICANN a few
years ago and that lawsuit is pending). This settlement is no doubt
unfair, unjust & inappropriate... as it allows Verisign to increase
the price of .COM Domian Names by 7% per year. And increases ICANN fees
from .25 cents to .50 cents per Domain.
Main Highlights of the settlement are:
The settlement agreement allows Verisign to increase the price of
.com domain names to every Registrar by 7% every year. Currently
Verisign charges all Registrars $6 for every domain name. The new
settlement agreement however allows them to increase prices to all of
us without any cost justification. They can simply increase the price
by 7% EACH year.
This means they could double the price in 10 years. Naturally any
increase in price would mean all Registrars would have to increase
their prices too.
In this settlement proposal ICANN is giving Verisign the chance
to make more than 2 Billion Dollars extra over the next 10 years. This
may by far be the most expensive settlement proposal the world has
witnessed.
This 2 Billion Dollars is coming out of customer's pockets.
The new settlement agreement also doubles the ICANN fees charged
to Registrars. Currently Registrars pay 25 cents per domain name to
ICANN. The new agreement will make that 50 cents. This again means all
Registrars will further increase what they charge for dotCom Domain
Names.
The new settlement agreement has a perpetual presumptive renewal
clause. This means that Verisign will permanently hold on to the dotCom
Registry. There will never be any competitive bid for it, except in a
very remote circumstance. Verisign now gets the right to a perpetual
monopoly. This means that they are free to do whatever they want with
dotCom, without fear of competition. Prices therefore will never reduce.
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