It is my view that there is no purpose to increasing fees for domain names, other than rent-seeking. Operational expenses required for running the domain name system should be progressively minimized until the system is entirely automated, seeking to have only the expenses for energy, equipment, and land. The system should increase in efficiency, rather than decrease. Proposals to allow the domain name system to further slip into feudalism only endangers its future. It then becomes entwined with the economic goals of of not those who support it via name license fees, but instead those who benefit from it in profit, the profiteers being monopolists and interlopers. There is little purpose to having people involved in the running of the system except to support such people economically. The domain name system should not support anyone’s economic livelihood. It should be divorced from the employment economy as possible so that it may stand the harsh test of technological evolution without being endangered doubly by the whims of that chaos called the economy. Forrest Fabian Jesse jesse@jesse.org <mailto:jesse@jesse.org> 北京曦轩实验室 Beijing Xixuan Laboratory ---- --++ -+-+ -+-+ --++ 北京市 海淀区 高梁桥斜街44号 科教大楼13B 13th Floor National University Science & Technology Bld. Beijing Jiaotong University East Campus, Beijing, 100044 电话 Tel. +86 10 516 86 535 手机 mobile +86 138 1131 5130