1. Americans are to prosperous and consume too many Internet resources; therefore, we at ICAAN shall cancel many domain names from America and deny them domain registration until further notice. Third world nations need domain name access too!
2. Americans are to prosperous and consume too many Internet resources; therefore, we at ICAAN cause all American Internet Service Providers to throttle American bandwidth to the average of third world nations of just 256kbps.
3. Americans are to prosperous and consume too many Internet resources; therefore, we at ICAAN shall tax all Internet domain name from America a fee of $500 per year per domain name.
Bet on it. It is coming.
Fees and taxes — very likely.
Also ...
Swedish telecom chief to steer web body ICANN to independence [USA Internet control expires Sept 30]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3394704/posts
Europe is seeking ‘internet ostracism’ to regulate ALL domain names [aka web addresses] throughout the world, and Obama is on board.
I realize you and Palmer have been discussing ways to work around TLD/Registrar oversight for websites [if it comes to that]. But it would still be a mess trying to work around it. And China might act as ICANN’s enforcer via cyber-warfare.