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.

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