.com網域註冊費調漲 ICANN核准

[shenghong]

http://www.worldjournal.com/wj-tc-ne...seq_id=1319659

【本報綜合一日電訊報導】網域名稱與地址管理機構ICANN董事會1日核准，網域名稱註冊服務商核簽公司（VeriSign）必須在符合特定要件的前提下，才能調漲.com 網域名稱的註冊費用，未來6年內的費用漲幅以7%為上限。
核簽公司營運總部設於加州山景，目前，每一個.com 網域名稱售價為6元。而根據ICANN董事會1日核准的新方案，核簽公司得以調漲.com 網域名稱年費。

根據新核准的方案，在未來六年的四年當中，核簽公司網域名稱年費漲幅限定為7%，另外兩年除了漲幅設定在同一範圍內之外，還必須是在因應安全威脅或者配合ICANN命令的前提下，才能漲價。

針對這項新方案，I-CANN以九票對五票的比例通過，一名董事棄權；董事會成員並未隨即出面表態。

這項新方案一直備受爭議，反對者對於漲價提案、以及核簽公司能夠在2012年與ICANN合約到期時享有更新合約的優先權等議題抱怨連連。

網路解決方案公司（Network Solutions）執行長米契爾認為，在聽取許多網路經營者的反對意見後，ICANN仍核准該方案，令人失望。

前述新方案還有待商務部核准，米契爾敦促政府單位加以回絕；然而，核簽公司卻對ICANN董事會決議感到高興，該公司指出，這項決議與ICANN去年和.net 網域名稱註冊服務商達成的協議雷同。

在前述消息下，核簽公司1日上漲0.15元，以23.87元作收。


2006-03-02

[shenghong]

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/001548.html

After several years of squabbling, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last night agreed to let VeriSign manage the valuable .com domain of Web addresses until 2012.

The company will also be allowed to renew its .com management agreement automatically, without any competitive bidding. Nine ICANN board members voted in favor of the agreement, five voted against it, and one abstained.

Pending approval of the agreement by the Department of Commerce, ICANN will allow VeriSign to raise the fee it charges for .com domain registrations by 7 percent annually starting in 2007, but only for four of six years. VeriSign must give current registrants six months notice of the increase, and existing customers will have the ability to register at the current rate of $6 a year for up to 10 years.

In a telephone press briefing earlier today, ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey sounded relieved that the organization's battle with VeriSign appeared to be over. Twomey said the agreement "ends the long-standing cold war between ICANN and registry services."

Still, he was close to apologetic when he explained that the organization felt constrained by previous domain-registration agreements with VeriSign, claiming that this was "probably the best deal that was possible in these negotiations."

Much of the disagreement stems from VeriSign's short-lived Site Finder service that redirected people who entered incorrect Web addresses to sites that paid a per-click fee back to the company. VeriSign withdrew the service in October 2003 after just a few weeks at ICANN's request, but later VeriSign sued ICANN over the issue.

The agreement approved yesterday is the last word on Site Finder, unless VeriSign chooses to allow an ICANN arbitration committee to review the service beforehand, according to Twomey.

Twomey was unwilling to hazard a guess as to when or if the Department of Commerce would give the agreement its seal of approval.

[gump]

油價一漲，什麼阿貓阿狗都跟著漲

[jack111]

這算不算壟斷..........