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US citizens getting screwed over because the government outsourced management of a national resource to the biggest company it could find, that company’s proving to be totally incompetent, and oversight is basically nonexistent? Say it ain’t so!

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Plenty of countries outsource their ccTLD management to the private sector. It's GoDaddy that is the problem.

Hell, the root zone is controlled by the private sector.

I agree. It’s not the outsourcing, it’s that we picked an incompetent company and then didn’t provide any oversight.

In this case it isn't incompetence, it's immorality. Which sucks, but is to be expected from the private sector when there is no oversight.

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