During all the shouting about SOPA and proposed blackouts to ‘protest’, the organization that actually runs the DNS root servers, ICANN, the backbone of the web, has been quite busy in plain view on changing the game, in favor of the government. It’s been highly underreported that ICANN is now accepting submissions for new gTLD’s, or ‘generic top level domains’. Without getting into all the details of what that means, other than possibly hundreds if not thousands of new domains like .shop .dork .shill and .drone that you will be able to register vanity domain names under, ICANN has come up with a new requirement upon registration: You must verify who you are when you register a new domain name, even an international one. So, if I pay GoDaddy or any other outfit my $9 for curry.blog and have it point to my server at blog.curry.com, I will have to prove my identity upon registration. Presumably with some form of government approved ID.
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