ICANN: Club Med for Geeks?
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization that manages Internet domain names, has been called a lot of names, but “Club Med for Geeks” is a new one.
Computerworld reporter Patrick Thibodeau hurled the insult on an email list discussion after learning that ICANN had a travel budget of more than $12 million.
The organization convenes three international meetings a year to discuss Internet domain name issues, in places such as San Juan, Sao Paulo, Marrakech and Wellington.
Thibodeau suggests that ICANN’s recent decision to relax top-line domain-naming rules and allow businesses to purchase their own is a ploy to rake in more money for travel to exotic locales.
