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IDOA.info - the Internet Domain Owners Association

Become a member of IDOA.info for free and join the fight to protect domain owners' rights and keep prices fair and low!

To ICANN and the .ORG, .INFO and .BIZ registries (and to all other registries):

CEASE AND DESIST NOTICE

Any regulation, rule or law which allows anyone (including ICANN, and / or any registry) to raise the price of any domain above the initial price paid for the domain is fraudulent and should be understood as illegal. It is an uncompetitive business practice, and amounts to the operation of a monopoly, and US anti-trust laws and civil and criminal procedure should prohibit any such action.

ICANN: Taxation Without Representation.

ICANN illegally taxes domain names about $0.18 per domain per year. Every year! This illegal taxation has been going on for over 10 years now and the domain name owners have never voted on this scam! We domain name owners have not been allowed to vote on it. And ICANN uses extortion - threatening (and following through on its threats) to seize our domain names if we don't pay. We cannot "renew" our domain names without paying this illegal tax, in fact.This is illegal taxation without representation! Join IDOA.info and help us MAKE THEM STOP!

Domain Name Owners are not recognized as Owners by ICANN, but as "Registrants". We pay for the domain names, we pay for DNS services and web hosting services and website creation services to make websites and put our brands and property on the world wide web. All of this coses US money, time and resources. ICANN gives all the power to steal our domain names and our brands to unscrupulous registries and registrars which seize our domain names illegally and unethically, raise the prices of them illegally and unethically, and wrongfully use our domain names to make themselves profits, all the while harming our rights, brands, identities and property. Join IDOA.info now and help us MAKE THEM STOP!

The .BIZ registry (neustar, neulevel) decided to declare some of the registered, owned .biz domains "premium" domains, and then demanded higher prices to renew them. This was without the vote of current .biz domain name owners. This was against our wishes. ICANN, once again, perenially in bed with unscrupulous registries, did nothing to protect the .biz domain name owners, and the .biz registry was able to steal some valuable owned .biz domains away from their rightful owners. Certain registrars did not accept to renew .biz "premium" domains at all, and that is one way the .biz registry was able (so far, the courts will be deciding this one) to steal away owned, branded, property - a domain name. Join IDOA.info and help us MAKE THEM STOP!