It really isn't a personal opinion; the facts are undeniable by virtue of the admitted regulatory signs.
It is in ICANN's power to gift a resource, set the requirements by which one can be gifted, set the rules for use of resource, charge and punish violations of the rules as appropriate and exact a fee for gifting that resource. Anywhere else in Christendom and the known sensate world, those activities are the very definition of a regulator.
ICANN has managed to convince itself and would wish to make accommodating idiots of the rest of us because it is politically difficult to do otherwise. I get the politics of it. But to ask me to deny the evidence of my two lying eyes and what is plainly the case in reason and judgment is a bridge too far. The Christian bible has a line in it "in Christ all things are possible". I would add a caution to that declaration: Save and except to take me for an idiot.
-Carlton
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Carlton A Samuels
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