Originally Posted by
RonPaulIsGreat
First There is a free market for Domain Names.
HOWEVER. People need to understand some things.
1. You can set up your own server, to point to your site using ebay.com for example, and others could use your server for domain resolution. In effect all those users using your server, would in effect go to a completely and totally different ebay.com than those using the "normal" system.
However, none of us would like for there to be 2000 different ebay.com's right, that would be confusing, as that would be determined by whatever server you decided to use for domain resolution.
But you could do this. As in make your own version of the internet, using well established domain names. I could set it up whenever I typed google.com it'd go to make crappy web site, and you could use it to do the same thing.
Now, NO ONE, wants that and everyone wants to go to the version of google or ebay recognized by the "Centralized Authority" we are all arguing about, when they type that in, thus 99.9% of the internet community think it's a good idea to have a "CENTRAL" Authority to make sure that ebay.com points to where the recognized owner of that domain says it should point.
So, by YOU, using the "regular" internet with standard domain names pointing to the same location(S) wherever you are at, and using regular DNS servers, and using Domain Name Sellers like Godaddy, you are submitting to that central authority, as you could in theory not use that system, and even convince others to use your system.
AND in this system that you are using right now to find all your favorite sites like clockwork which you implicitly condone and enjoy the benefits of (a functional domain system), you agree to abide by a set of rules (YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN SYSTEM, BUT NO ONE WILL USE IT), and in those rules there are certain stipulations about trademarks, and identity, which the vast majority of the planet agrees are reasonable.
So, for all this talk of "FREE MARKET", you can select not to use the stable rational system of domain ownership, and set up your own system. You really can, but very very few do, as it would suck, if on one system ebay.com was the leading auction site, then on another it was transvestite fetish porn. LOL.
Anyway, Legally, and in the Free Market even, Ron Paul has every right to just take Ronpaul.com. As no one made them use that domain name, no one made them select to use the "standard Centralized" system.
So, ICANN is sort of like a Business you select to use, no one makes you use it, you could have a domain name system for yourself, and those you could convince to use it. Now, they are a near total monopoly, but that is the free markets decision. The real Google wouldn't index you though, nor find you for that matter, nor most of those selecting to use the centralized system.