Once again, I am baffled at the assumption that the Internet should be run for the benefit of us vanity domain registrants rather than for the benefit of its users.
Unfortunately the Internet is being run and has been run for many years for the benefit of service providers (not just access providers) and its shareholders, user's interests are at the bottom and rarely get to higher levels in the bottom-up process, particularly at ICANN.
I concur with the sentiment that the Internet should be run for the benefit of its users. But since about 99.99% of those users haven't registered a domain and never will, why does anyone thing that the interests of the .01% with domains is more important than the interests of everyone else? Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.