me!

porn.......oops, too late

or bill gates, oops.......again

The guy who posted that pee-pee thread.

Al Gore, I mean he did invent the internet afterall.

nut sack squirrel

Drew Curtis -

Stoatbringer!


Seriously though, it is strange that one organization seems to control most of the domain naming systes. Looks like there might be a change to that soon though. I hope it's for the better, but as always I am skeptical.

I should.

this thread should have voting

A group made up of representatives of the 6 largest bandwidth providers moderated by 3 at large publically elected representatives....


just to pull somthing out of my, Ahhhh hahaha heya there

Microsoft?

I would do it but I'd probably fark it up

fark committies should run the internet

porn is already accounting for approximately 12% of internet revenue alone. nio reason why it cant rule the whole thing.

Fark da man and his plan to rule the net! Fark Microsoft! Fark Viacom! Fark Gore! Power to the people my mo fine funkah bruthas and sistahs! Word!

Is he going to eat my children?

Looks like he already has.

The internet should be run by a sackful of midgets.

midgets

...with hats

I think Amazon.com is doing a fine job of redirecting every ghuqing Google search to their exciting and informative shopping carts. Search no more. All your questions can be answered for 19.95 plus shipping and handling.

What happened to "Free information(and porn)for all"? Or am I being an idealistic dreamer? ;)

Icann, however, has two big problems [...] second, it derives its authority solely from the US Government, that has unilaterally decided how the net should be managed.

That's right, asswipe. WE invented the internet, therefore we have most of the control over it, and rightfully so. Quit whining about it.

surely the internet should be run by no one?
maybe eric estrada should run it?

Nowadays when I use search engines, I get a whooole lot of links to which teenagers briefly mention whatever it was I was searching for, and then resume their angst-ridden, hormonally-induced-depression-laden lives.

or ric flair

i should run the internet, and i promise to kill all the grammer nazis. vote for me!

Blogs have ruined the internet.

Even more than geocities.

::slaps 'livejournals in' into her previous post between 'to' and 'which'::

Clearly the question should be "Who is running the internet?" and the answer is the Baptist and the Aliens are!!!

^^^^ uh huh

Since Canada's the third largest supplier of high-quality pot to the US the lets give them a try!!! Maybe we could work out a trade agreement like Pot for the net and call it porn or some thing like that!!! OMG Im out of papers and the wife is on the rag!! Thought: use bong and hid in the basement for next few days!!!

Al Gore after all he did invent the internet

Who should run the Internet?

The United Nations of course. They're doing such a sterling job of quelling terrorists that they've earned the right to control access to all of the world's web-based assets.

oops Sarlac already nominated Al Gore!! sorry!!

blogs don't ruin the internet, people do.

Ellen Feiss

I think the internet should be run as an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We could each take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.

...or we could just wait for some watery tart to throw a sword at someone.

The monkey who decides which links make it to the front page of Fark. He's already doing a good job of it. Just look at the two identical articles on Canadian pot in a row.

MY VOTE GOES TO DETECTIVE JOHN KIMBLE, IDIOT!

Everyone who bothers to serve web pages and other toys runs the internet. Those who bother to hunt down and kill spammers rule.

"The United Nations of course. They're doing such a sterling job of quelling terrorists that they've earned the right to control access to all of the world's web-based assets."

Is this like the theory that the government is a way of taking the stupid out of the private sector where they could do some real harm?

Next time france kicks up a stint about the US killing terrorists:
US: 'You got the internet working?'
France: 'Ummm... We Surrender!'
US: Idiots.

Everyody wins! The US get to actually do what they do (rule the 'real world', and the french/europians can pansy arround and not have any idea what they are doing in an electronic one!

I'm with Rhiannon:

ICANN should do a "run the internet for a month" sale on Ebay.

With regards to what? Domain names? IP addresses? I saw the question and the first thing I thought was since the internet is all computers and people are pushing for all this artificial intelligence why not let the computers who technically handle everything run the internet and have people come in once in a while to service them until parts become self replicating and and and and self repairing...like that plastic they had in Wired magazine and it heals itself when there's a hole. That'd be neato... till they begin taking over...

That's right, asswipe. WE invented the internet, therefore we have most of the control over it, and rightfully so. Quit whining about it.

Neither the ICANN or the US has any real control over the net. Theres nothing to prevent all of the ISPs from changing their name servers to a new root. If that were to happen, ICANN would instantly become irrelevent.

Here's one alternative to ICANN...
OpenNIC

John Gilmore.

and


Lawrence Lessig

Might not be as cute as Momo or Ellen Feiss, but these are two guy I would trust the internet two. Might as well throw

Bruce Schneier

In the mix to to keep it secure :P

(btw, I had no idea what any of these guys looked like untill just now. What a bunch of dorks :P)

Ugh, farked up the grammer on that one, should have said

"Might not be as cute as Momo or Ellen Feiss, but these are two guys I would trust the internet to"