So Mozilla/FF can do what all the congresspeople do: game the system

A few vm's running FF browsing various US govt sites 24x7 and they're back above the threshold.

OK... low user id. NOW it's 2003. :D

And yeah, /. staff is really into the baity headlines. Calling it "globally recognized" is false.

No they have gotten worse.

My office had a Comcast Business plan and needed faster upload (it was capped at 25 Mbps) but they wouldn't sell us anything faster, so we had to get a different service and cancel Comcast. Tried to cancel online, but you have to call.

Main call center wanted us to deal with a business sales rep, but he wouldn't help cancel, so I called the number on the bill and said cancel, that rep claimed the retention dept was closed for the day and call back tomorrow... called back the next day and oh, sorry, no one in retention is available (it was mid-afternoon, no claiming they're closed) Had it out with that rep who finally said they'd submit a request to cancel and send a label to mail back the modem.

Of course they didn't actually cancel and no label came. I stopped the autopay right after that call and they took 3 mos to terminate for nonpayment. Collections notices started a month later. Mentioned it to the company lawyer who said it's all invalid because we cancelled, not to pay, and wait to see what they do, chances are nothing happens.

Other articles say it was a dozen rigs and that he used about $17.5k of electricity. This is hardly newsworthy. A stolen car is worth more. And they used CGIS for it? I bet the govt wasted more money investigating and charging the guy than he earned from his little farm.

And claiming it won't be shared, when the feds can just show up with a national security letter.

Counting coins that moved on a certain date as acquired for cash on that date is moronic. Giving play to articles like this is just feeding traffic to clickbaiters. Oh wait, looking at the ads at the bottom of the page, that's what slashdot is now. Pathetic.

Sounds like a solution to rising sea levels - just move all that water inland! /s

Next they'll say Tuvalu and coastal states should pay for the pipeline.

Zoho is very good. I've been using their free version for a family domain for about 6 years.

I've recommended it to a couple friends over the years who wound up using the paid version for their companies and they are happy too.

More likely their lawyers reminded them they are public now and convinced them it's not worth picking a fight with the SEC... and to turn it to their advantage by using the SEC as a weapon against their competitors.

They want their stupid predictions back.

Seriously, this is like how they thought we'd have flying cars by 2000.

So dumb, not gonna happen.

ICANN is not going to prevent the sale. ICANN is the root of the problem. The board does whatever their crony friends want them to do, conveniently pointing the finger at "ICANN staff" for producing a recommendation when something is unpopular. Unless you played LAX in private school with someone on ICANN's board, ICANN might as well be Kafka's Castle.

Behind the scenes, Verisign (and it's largest shareholders e.g. Berkshire Hathaway) want to see price caps removed from .com. The best way to do that is with a test case like .org.

Registry prices for .com, .net, and .org domains have increased over the past 15 years, a time when the cost to provide registry services should have fallen. Ask yourself, what is the marginal cost of a database entry? Add to that a small amount for running the tld's nameservers and dealing with dos attacks. You'll quickly realize registry operators are overcompensated; further they are defacto monopolies and act like monopolists.

PIR doesn't actually run the registry, they farm it out to Afilias. They just got that expense chopped a few months ago: https://domainnamewire.com/201...

Prices won't skyrocket, they will creep upward year after year.

You are a frog, and you are already being boiled.

com and org were $6/yr at the registry 15 years ago. Then ICANN started it's corporate giveaways and let verisign raise .com to the current $7.85... it would be higher but congress intervened. .org had no intervention and is up to $9.93 today. Berkshire Hathaway owns a significant chunk of Verisign and is rumored to be pulling the strings on this .org mess so they can ultimately remove price controls from .com. I'd bet they will succeed.

I've worked in and been around the DNS since the early 90's so I'm closer to the matter than most on here. IMHO:

ICANN is a poster child for corporate manipulation and regulatory capture. I'd say the biggest culprits are Verisign and their major shareholders like Berkshire Hathaway, followed by the new gtld registries and their founders/investors.

ICANN (i.e. Board members, executives, and staff) don't care about domain owners, and domain owners have been continually, progressively and systematically marginalized since ICANN's founding. Even the various non-registry constituencies within ICANN are stacked with current and former registry employees. Voting members from big companies tend to "go with the flow" following the lead of industry (registry) veterans, so don't expect Google/Microsoft/GoDaddy/Clouflare or your favorite other industry company to fix things.

Registries (e.g. Verisign for .com and .net, PIR for .org) are defacto monopolies. If you want a domain in a given tld, it must come from that registry (via a registrar) and you are stuck paying whatever fee they set. There are no market forces at the registry level (only at the registrar level where margins are often extremely thin)

The domain industry is small and incestuous. Employees routinely hop jobs from one registry or registrar to another and/or ICANN, and the current head of PIR previously worked at Network Solutions, Namejet, and Donuts (big new tld registry).

Any time people band together to try and make domain owners' voices heard they get shot down or ignored. The only real fix is for ICANN to be reformed (shrunk) and registry functions to be distributed so there is no monopoly force in play.

Alternatively, I'd say the people saying Denic is a good registry model have the right idea. .de names are .2 Euro/mo (2.40/yr.) And the .de zone is slightly larger than .net or .org. Denic members even get a rebate when Denic turns a profit. When .net went out to bid I spoke to several people from bidding companies who thought they could make a profit at $3/yr. Instead, Verisign got perpetual renewal on their .net contract and the right to 10% annual price increases, so we now have .net names approaching $10 at the registry level.

Package it right and put it on every cpu heatsink and psu in a datacenter. As long as the parts are cheap enough, cutting power usage in a large datacenter by 2% could be huge.