The real loser in this deal is us. Not only is trust lost (or already has been from other past DNS goings-on), but we, the registrants, end up paying more, fin

The real loser in this deal is us. Not only is trust lost (or already has been from other past DNS goings-on), but we, the registrants, end up paying more, financially and otherwise. Generally speaking, the underpinnings of the Internet (protocols, certain levels of infrastructure) should always and forever be public, not-for-profit, "open-source", and not patentable, in order to protect the integrity of the system. I'm no expert, so maybe a lot of it is this way already, but DNS seems to be a bastion of for-profit greed. All of this walks hand in hand with Net Neutrality, in my view -- governance to protect what is a fundamental human right, the free (as in freedom, and to some degree, as in beer) flow of information. And in an ideal world, objectively factual information.