ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy

Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by acabal on Sunday June 28, 2015 @02:48AM (#9792682)

My first thought after reading the tl;dr was, "what do I do about it"? The answer is at the end of the article: the working group is accepting comments on the matter at a certain email address.

Our privacy online and off is already being deeply threatened on many other fronts. If you think this proposal is bad for our privacy and bad for our internet, please take a moment and email your thoughts to the working group.

I wonder if a decentralized type of DNS, like blockchain-based DNS, will ever take off. If we even have an acceptable alternative right now, I suppose the first meaningful step towards adoption would be baking support in to a major browser.

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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by raquo on Sunday June 28, 2015 @02:59AM (#9792703)

Note:

1) Make sure to click on a link in the follow-up email they send you in order for your comment to go through.

2) The contents of your email (though it seems not the email address itself) will be made public, so if you don't want your real name in the open, don't sign with it.

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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by imglorp on Sunday June 28, 2015 @09:25AM (#9793387)

Namecoin is one such, which provides .bit domains. This is exactly the use case.

http://namecoin.info

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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by tomjen3 on Sunday June 28, 2015 @03:26AM (#9792756)

Do they actually care about those comments? Have they in the past changed politics based on similar comments?

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