[frankharv]

Excellent Article and insightful comments setion.

As much as I hated seeing the US Department of Commerce having stewardship of ICANN this recent development this is really a body blow to all .org stakeholders.

I guess we all should have seen this coming when it was spun off to a "Multi stakeholder board".

First an increase in allowed fee's then the private turnover. A well scripted subversion.