On NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>, Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
wrote:

>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/07/icann_verisign_fees/

Operator of the dot-com registry, Verisign, has decided to pay DNS
overseer ICANN $4m a year for the next five years in order to “educate
the wider ICANN community about security threats.”

>98% of the comments were opposed.

>How many / which companies would have to get onboard in order to get
>enough support for an icann alternative?

>Is such a thing even feasible?

Forget about being opposed or not.  If ICANN wants to buy education
about security threats why are they receiving money?  Quite obviously
something fishy is going on (or El Reg is full'o'shit).