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Originally posted by ToBad@Jun 14 2008, 11:40
Jag är glad att inte Ines Usman som en gång i tiden kunggjorda att Internet minsann var en fluga som skulle blåsa över, sålde ut sverige till högstbjudande.
Vad som händer med Niue, är exakt samma sak som händer när komuner i sverige säljer ut invånarnas tillgångar mot kortsiktiga "vinster".
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ToBad - Ett ganska ogenomtänkt resonemang om du frågar mig!
Bill Semich tilldelades TLDn av Jonathan Postel, som var den person
INNAN ICANN som avgjorde detta, på samma sätt som Björn Eriksen tilldelades .se när det begav sig.
Den Svenska TLDn sattes sedan i händerna på NIC-SE AB - ett AB som numera inte existerar, men som ägdes av IIS - det är av den orsaken IIS/.SE sitter med avtalet idag.
Om du tog dig tid att läsa länken ovan, skulle du bla hittat det här:
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By June 2003, the company was able to offer Niueans free wireless Internet, via a series of towers on the island. For many, it not only opened them to the outside world but also enabled an inexpensive way to keep in regular contact with friends and relatives who had left the island years before. The company also got involved in civic affairs on the island, sponsoring the rugby team and Niue's contestant in a regional beauty pageant.
Nevertheless, four months later, a new telecom minister on the island claimed the operators lacked a proper license. He shut down the service for workers in the government—the largest group of users. The minister, Toke Talagi, requested Icann transfer management of the domain name to the government, charging Mr. Semich and his team with "neo-colonialism" and ignoring the rights of the government.
The government hired an American adviser to help lobby Icann for the change. The adviser charged Mr. Semich with reneging on a promise to give 25% of his profits to the government and, worse, with knowingly registering pornography Web sites. Mr. Semich denies the accusation. The government launched an independent investigation into the allegations.
Mr. Semich says there was never such an agreement. His company had voluntarily agreed to provide free Internet access to the island, which it was doing, he says. He points out that the operators of other domains don't pay a slice of their proceeds back to governments.
"We agreed to provide free wireless Internet to the government," he says. "There has never been any other agreement."
Nevertheless, on strongly Christian Niue, the charges that the country code was being used for pornography sites created a firestorm. Mr. Guest, one of Mr. Semich's local hires, says the bad publicity hurt business in his motel, the Coral Gardens, forcing him to shut down its restaurant. "They felt we were taking advantage of the nation," says Mr. Guest, whose wife is from Niue. "We were devastated by some of the things being said of us."
But soon citizens began to miss the free Internet access. The matter dominated the election for premier in March of last year, where Mr. Talagi, the telecom minister, was considered the favorite. Just days before the vote, the incumbent premier overruled Mr. Talagi by ordering that Mr. Semich's company could use government-owned towers to extend the Internet to several villages. Mr. Talagi was narrowly defeated.
"The people stood up and said, 'We want our Wi-Fi,' " says Mr. St. Clair, who came to Niue with the Peace Corps in 1994 as a bulldozer mechanic and stayed on to head the construction of the wireless Internet service, called Wi-Fi.
The winner of the election, Mititaiagimene Young Vivian, has taken a more accommodating approach toward Mr. Semich's company. The independent investigation, which ended late last year, found nothing improper about Mr. Semich's business or about how he became manager of the domain name in the first place. No evidence exists to support the pornography charge
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Det finns alltså flera likheter mellan den Svenska TLDn och .nu.
Intressant är ju också att .SE haft för avsikt att köpa .nu-TLDn för några år sedan.
(Något som väl får anses märkligt, då IIS/.SE påstår att de inte gör någon vinst..)
Sist bara en reflektion av Wall Street Journal utdraget ovan - Jag vet med stor säkerhet att det inte finns någon annan TLD som på eget iniativ plockat bort fler domäner av pornografisk karaktär än just .nu (något jag själv anser ibland gått till kraftig överdrift).