Comments on: US Federal Deficit Passes $100 Billion for Just July

By: Damir

Damir — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:56:32 +0000

US Federal Deficit Passes $100 Billion for Just July – what a President the USA has the Guy has money to to slaughter innocent people around the world in the Name of Democracy and FREEDOM against an enemy made out of mindless fluff (Terrorists) – The Private Company the Federal Reserve must be happy since they print out the $100 billion and charge the US Government interest on the $100 billion they give to the US Government to balance their books.
The owners (which are shielded in Secret) of the private Company called the Federal Reserve must be having a ball creating money out of thin air and then passing it on to the US Government and then they collect the interest.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:26:01 +0000

Sorry, I meant to post the comment above in the Tucows article.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:24:19 +0000

Thanks for highlighting this again.

Yesterday, the Commercial and Business Users Constituency weighed in on this anti-competitive practice of registrars warehousing of domain names with an addendum to their original ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement comments. http://forum.icann.org/lists/raa-consultation/

This is great because it’s a group of powerful industry heavy hitters like eBay, Dell, Verizon, Yahoo! and also another big-time domainer, the Castello Cities Internet Network.

Here’s their addendum in full:

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Supplementary note from the Commercial and Business Users Constituency: Warehousing

* To:
* Subject: Supplementary note from the Commercial and Business Users Constituency: Warehousing
* From: “BC Secretariat”
* Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:47:57 +0200

With respect to the provisions on warehousing of domain names, it seemed
that what most concerned everyone was that ICANN registrars, by virtue of
the RAA, had access to a pool of expiring domain names that they could
“store” for future use or sale.

That information and access meant they had preferential market information
which they could use to advantage themselves over others who may wish to
purchase expiring names. This creates a two tier system where some in the
marketplace are disadvantaged. Some are concerned about the
anti-competitive nature of this.
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Not a peep from the ICA, though. What a surprise, Tucows is a member.

By: Kelly Lieberman

Kelly Lieberman — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:08:27 +0000

Let’s not forget the buget for “Black ops” which is totally off the record….