i-names, a very bad idea

At the same time that people are complaining of the central control of DNS under ICANN, the identity community has a similar solution on internet identity management called i-names, which I think it is a very bad idea.

In the last one month, I was struggling with DNS. I bought a domain from a domain seller so that I need to transfer the registrant. This is the first I buy domain from the domain sellers. It looks like it is not enough to just transfer the username and password and contact information. It is important to change the registrant information, which, according to ICANN, requires a special procedure. There are some companies just in this business. They charge $60 flat fee for domain valued under $600. If the domain sale value is above $600, they charge 5% of sale value. This is just unbelievable.


Talking back i-names, besides the ridiculous registration fee, $20 a year, which is a ridiculous big number for anyone outside of the top 10 richest countries, which might cover only 1.5 billion people on this planet, the above issue will come up later as well.

i-names is a bad idea.