TEXT OF PETITION


IMPORTANT UPDATE: WHOIS.SC managed to import the first 10,000 signature and duplicate the PetitionOnline system on their own servers! Nice job. This means you can still sign the petition (apparently 5000+ more signed up at PetitionOnline.com, but I don't have that data saved).

Click here to add yourself to the ONLINE petition

Due to the extreme popularity of this petition, the PetitionOnline.com website is having major problems, and many folks are unable to sign the petition. And, it's only showing the first 178 comments, instead of the 10,000+ that signed in the first 2 days alone. You can still make a difference, though. I suggest:

1) Print out the petition text and FAX it to ICANN, at: 1.310.823.8649

2) E-mail a copy of it to: icann@icann.org, twomey@icann.org and, halloran@icann.org.

3) Support the ICANN Accountability Act of 2003 by contacting your government representatives using the links on that site.

A printout of the first 10,000 signatures (300 pages!) has been sent to ICANN via FedEx. See its tracking here (might take a few hours to show up, given it was just picked up on Friday afternoon).

# Name Comments Location Company
1 George Kirikos Verisign needs to stop this blatant abuse of the DNS. Toronto, Canada  
2 Steve Stoeser      
3 Frank Michlick   Oakville, Canada Degap
4 Oscar Wu   Toronto Tucows
5 Bill Laakkonen   Fort Myers Florida Im1
6 Jay Westerdal clear abuse of monopoly power to make a few buck at the worlds expense, why is Verisign entrusted with .COM registry? Bellevue, WA Name Intelligence, Inc.
7 Anthony Coffman   Akron, Ohio, USA  
8 Eric Martin      
9 Dave Carlin      
10 Matt Van Grinsven   Appleton Outboxes.com Network
11 Gordon Martin right on BC Canada DropWizard.com
12 Josef Grosch   Berkeley, Ca.  
13 Josh Melamed Stop Verisign Now! Canada Ê
14 Duff Reid   Kelowna, BC  Canada  
15 Dmitri Pavlenkov Don't make dumb standards Fort Myers, FL, USA  
16 Brian Kruger      
17 Wouter Vonk      
18 Daniel Stager Verisign is typosquating on trademarked names and using my non-server appointed property to generate revenue without my permission. New Hampshire  
19 Martin Bublitz      
20 Brad Britton Verisign was trusted to operate the DNS in a way to be fair to ALL people. They have betrayed this trust in exchange for profit. They are using their position to gain an unfair advantage over other businesses and people.    
21 Jeff Wasilko      
22 Raymond Bero      
23 Mark Petersen   Seattle, WA  USA Planet Nic
24 Eric Prigge Stop theft of the .com and .net space! Los Angeles, CA WebhostingONE
25 Chad Wright   Modesto CA WebQuest.com Inc.
26 Ewan Edwards   Victoria, BC, Canada  
27 Deid Reime      
28 Humfrey Brandes   London, UK  
29 Ewan Bain   Scotland  
30 Robert Deemer Stop the abuse versign. USA  
31 Nicholas B. Swift      
32 Farokh Irani      
33 Robert L Mathews     President, Tiger Technologies Internet Services
34 Kai Xue It may suck now but we should be enjoying this soon... California  
35 Yakov Shafranovich   USA  
36 Lewis W. Richards, III One of the greatest outrages since the start of the internet system. New Jersey, US  
37 Timothy R N J Wesson Increadable.  Ridiculous abuse of our namespace. Cambridge, England Freelance Programmer
38 Kevin M. Kelly A blatant abuse of DNS.  By resolving 'unregistered' domain names to their website, Verisign has co-opted the domain name thereby circumventing payment of the fees required for use of the domain name system. Iowa Kelly Webworks
39 Tim Woodcock   Victoria, BC, Canada BareMetal.com, inc.
40 Andy Gardner This is the result of ICANN letting Verisign give it a shafting over the net/org redelgation. Do something ICANN - JUST THIS ONCE!!!    
41 Larry Wentz IMO - the monopoly that Verisign has is dangerous for the Internet as a whole and an absolute outrage!    
42 Michael Schultheiss     Amellus Enterprises, Ltd.
43 Tarmo Tänav      
44 Anders Hellstrom      
45 Adrian Daminato      
46 Bill Weinman     bw.org
47 torben fjerdingstad   Denmark UNI-C
48 James W. Caruso, Sr. Customer of Versign: PayFlow Pro, etc. Roswell, GA U.S.A. MediaFirst PR - Atlanta
49 Joseph Ball      
50 Jeff Cronstrom   Massachusetts, USA Tzolkin Corp.
51 Joe Alagna Management of the Domain Name System is too important to be left to one company to do what it wants for profit.  It should be in the hands of a neutral service provider with no unfair advantage.  This reminds me of a type of insider trading.  It shouldn't be allowed. California, US  
52 Chris Campbell Verisign is blatantly rubbing this in the online industry's face!   WineGuy.com
53 Steven Cambridge      
54 Apu   Springfield, NJ NOC Services Corp.
55 Tim Hewitt     myOstrich Internet Services
56 Adam Strong Stop the abuse. USA  
57 Sue Ponsford   St. Paul, MN  
58 Doug Braun   ON, Canada Emerge2 Digital Inc.
59 Tumay Asena   CA Nokta.com Inc.
60 Barry W. Black   Sacramento, Ca, US my World Online
61 Don Lottig   Carlsbad, CA  
62 Eric Longman   Marietta, GA Atl-Connect Internet Services
63 Alan Bawden     Incompatible Time Sharing Systems
64 Ben Kennedy Yep, Verisign have repeatedly proved themselves to be a bad scene. Ottawa, ON, CA Zygoat Creative Tech
65 Rob Servis Verisign was given a 'public trust' to be allowed to manage the .COM and.NET registry, this is a use for their personal (corporate) gain which violates that public trust. Grand Rapids, MI WMIS Internet
66 Irma Timis     GT Media Inc
67 Eric Pratt This is nuts. I cannot believe this is happening. Orlando, FL  
68 steven sacks      
69 Dean Wolf      
70 FBP.net      
71 Lorely Bunoan This is just insane.  Stop!    
72 Ron James Network Solutions, the world's biggest cybersquatters now!  STOP IT!    
73 Ian C. Struckhoff   Enfield, NH USA & Sheffield, England  
74 Emmanuël Sustronck   Gent, Belgium One2Web
75 Carine Anseeuw   Gent, Belgium One2Web
76 Alex Cross      
77 T Brodie      
78 Tom Kiser thank you guys    
79 Les Eklund      
80 Bill Gerrard Verisign's abusive and unethical practices must be dealt with.  ICANN redelegate administration of .com and .net now!    
81 Douglas B. Dumitru   Laguna Hills, CA  USA EasyCo LLC
82 Jason Schaad Abuse of power - ICANN should be ashamed! Canada  
83 Richard Rakes     E1 Internet
84 Sandra Roussel I hate monopolies    
85 Andrew Crawford Sounds like a monopolistic action to me :( New Zealand  
86 Troy Martin   Australia  
87 Sam Silvester We have RFC's for a reason. Fix this now and ensure it can't happen again. Australia  
88 Oscar Petoskey As usual, Verisign is abusing it's position. Allen Park, Mi Rocket Network Solutions
89 Joey Olson They must be stopped. Mississauga, Ontario  
90 Suraj Subramanian   Mumbai MH India CWS
91 Nitin Agarwal This is not the way DNS is supposed to or should be allowed to work on a top level domain (.com, .net, etc.). Lets stop it! Fishkill, NY, USA RegisterSite.com
92 E.S. Kellermann This stupidity must be stopped.  Verisign has gone WAY too far this time.    
93 Doug Friend Yet another abuse of the registry.  At a minimum, Verisign should be given a a choice of running NSI or the registry, not both.  Not sure which one I'd hope they would choose... http://register4less.com  
94 Andrew Aylett   Â
95 Chris Scott They need to be stopped Orlando, FL US  
96 Tugrul Galatali   New York, NY  
97 Aaron Howell   Kennewick, WA  
98 Grant Keiser what Verisign is doing violates the spirit of the Internet USA  
99 Marc van den Dikkenberg      
100 Liam Delahunty   Â
101 Dan Troxel     Systems Solutions Inc.
102 Daniel Puzey   Biggleswade, UK Aragon Housing Association
103 Joseph Toon   Tempe, AZ GeckoHost
104 David Manura   Ringoes, NJ Scientific Instrument Services, Inc.
105 Patrick J. Kobly   Edmonton, AB, CANADA  
106 Keith Ivey   Washington, DC, USA  
107 Stephen Lake      
108 C Jones Perhaps it's time for another non-profit organization to take over management.  Verisign seems to be taking advantage of the public's trust and largesse.     
109 Tom McDonald      
110 James Rouzier      
111 Kirk Lanam   Network Operations Center Wolfnet Worldwide, Inc.
112 Jeremy Anthony Kinsey     Bella Mia, Inc.
113 Jack Evans      
114 Matt Weiland      
115 Jay Levine Stop the Verisign abuse!!!  Enough already! Ossining, NY  
116 Keith Baxter      
117 John Berryhill      
118 Charlie Livingston This is a blatant abuse of Verisign's position in the current DNS system and at best a dirty, monopolistic ploy Ontario, Canada sysninjas.com
119 Paul Hyland      
120 Sean Mitchell      
121 David Engels, Jr. This whole thing is a farce... Some of Verisign's own .com customers are having tech. problems because of this!   www.verisignsurelysmokescrack.com
122 John Evans      
123 Brian O'Donnell      
124 Stop Crying      
125 Terry I'm a spammer and I tink what verisign have done is superb... just think all my forged headers will now have a real website... GO VERISIGN    
126 Zachary Mutrux Versign's action is completely unconscionable. These irresponsible ingrates are violating the public trust through their mismanagement of the DNS system. Their corporate charter should be revoked and all their business cards burned in a large pile. San Francisco, CA, USA  
127 Justin King      
128 Dan Bendig   Saddle Brook, NJ  
129 Michael Loggie   Canada  
130 Eric Will   St. Louis, Illinois  
131 Charles E. White      
132 Sandy Harris   Canadian In China www.minriver.org
133 Richard Marceau This breaks a number of log-processing scripts and is costing me real time. VeriSign business practices have been questioned before and they clearly don't grasp the concept of "stewardship" -- time to give them the boot. Massachusetts, USA disorganized.org
134 Paul Heldt   Arvada, Colorado USA Axis Internet Design
135 nick wilsdon   brighton, UK e3internet limited
136 Stephen Knilans   IN  
137 Chris Sweeney   Cincinnati, OH  
138 Kasia Trapszo      
139 Mark Beatty This is an unfair an monopolistic use of information for the good of only one company, and bypassed normal error  procedures with the potential cause of user confustion or misdirection.    
140 Daniele Orlandi   Milano - Italy Utility Line Italia
141 Burke Almquist   Fargo, ND Mindfire Studios
142 Russell Adams   Tulsa, OK Tulsa Web Design
143 Davinderpal S Bhatia If some other corporation was exclusively doing this how would executives of Verisign feel ? NewYork Patiala.com
144 Thomas Eleam      
145 Sandra Bowman      
146 Jawaid Bazyar Unbelievable! This move by VeriSign cost us an unknown amount of money in system administrator time and extra bandwidth used. Plus, it has broken a number of our in-house OSS systems which we will have to spend funds to rewrite. Denver, CO foreThought.net
147 John Gilligan   Burlington, NJ,  USA West Jersey Technologies
148 Christian Nielsen This abuse must stop at once! Minneapolis, MN USA Nielsen Technical Services
149 Garry Chernoff      
150 James James Verisign needs to stop abusing its power. This latest gimick breaks lots of software that depend on NXDOMAIN responses and deprives users of their CHOICE of what to do when an incorrect domain name is entered. San Francisco, CA  
151 Blain W. Sadler The intrusion of corporate interests into the very lifeblood of the internet only continues the disturbing trend of corporate interests trampling the will of the people.  The internet, it seems, will not long be the last bastion of humanity in a world driven by money. Burlington, VT Helix Internet Technologies, Inc.
152 Daniel Shookowsky      
153 Don Cameron A blatant abuse of our network - worse than Spam Regional NSW  
154 JK Graham PLEASE put a stop to this!!!!    
155 Jim Cheetham   New Zealand iNode
156 Mike Price Stop the Verisign Monopoly NJ  
157 Darin A. Gordon      
158 Stephen Schwetz   Newcastle, NSW, Australia Stephen Schwetz Information Technology
159 Ryan Brothers      
160 John N. White Retired US expatriate Guadalajara. Mexico Team Ozonador
161 Ken Claussen Why doesn't the justice department investigate these types of business practices? Columbus, OH  
162 Lynn W. Taylor      
163 Sister Mary Elizabeth, OSM   San Juan Capistrano, CA AEGiS
164 Tony Stirk   Springfield, VA Iron Horse
165 Seth Jacobs I strongly object to Verisign's actions. Dixon, CA OnRamp113
166 Kenneth  D. Wolfe      
167 William J.Flood I own an ISP and see this action as being wrong in a business sense. Marathon, Wisconsin AirRunner Networks LLC
168 Sayamindu Dasgupta  India Â
169 Charles Miller Verisign are abusing their monopoly. Australia  
170 Jack Evans      
171 Edward C Tomlinson All your Domain Name typos are not belong to VeriSign!    
172 Dora Gerber   Geneva, Switzerland  
173 David Wakerley   Sydney  
174 matt ames   new york, ny  
175 jason kleinermanns      
176 John Taylor No organisation should ever be allowed to have a monopoly United Kingdom Lakeshost.com
177 J Jones Known as "VerySlimy" for good reason!    
178 Geoff Brozny   Columbus, Ohio Glorb Internet Services
179 Ashish Pawaskar This tactic scks and should cause a stink to big that verisign goes out of business! INDIA Internet Wizards
180 Mark de Vries   Netherlands  
181 David W. Hodgins   London, Ontario, Canada  
182 David K Mentor      
183 Ralph Moore      
184 Bryan Yambao      
185 Larry E. Glackin      
186 George Cao this is evil, disgusting, and will go down history as one of the ugliest performance of big business america. sunnyvale, ca  
187 Rich Graves   Massachusetts, USA Brandeis University
188 Max Andersen   Denmark Nord Data a/s
189 Per olof Ljungmark     Intersonic AB
190 Tony Mountifield   UK Software Insight Ltd
191 roxanne naylor these people have to be stopped Vanuatu fnsvanuatu.com
192 John McLusky      
193 Robin Bandy This is a blatant abuse of their standing as the contracted operator for the .com and .net TLDs. Oakland, CA CLIQ Services
194 Michael Baehr      
195 Anutarapun Pugdechat      
196 Bronwyn Evans   Queensland, Australia GympieOnline
197 Philipp Grosswiler   Switzerland swiss-design.net GmbH
198 CLEMENT Ahmad   FRANCE  
199 David Bowersox   Southern California  
200 Serge K. Keller   Fribourg (Switzerland) Publipress
201 Chris Cogdon      
202 Mike Heins   Hamilton, OH  
203 Claude LaFrenière no comment ! Canada  
204 Fabien LE LEZ   Morlaix, France  
205 David Watkins How many corporate black hats do we need? Louisville Colorado hollyconnects.com
206 Stefan Nesbitt   Scotland Turtle Design
207 Timothée Guicherd   Paris, France  
208 Stéphane Dupille   France