Clearly you haven’t read my posts in this thread, because you are not accurately portraying what I’ve said. I will restate an earlier analogy:
Right now, the government owns nearly all the roads in America. We all pay taxes, and those of us who drive more pay more taxes towards the roads. Who has the right to actually use these roads? Car drivers? Bicyclists? Runners? Horse and buggy? Protests? Parades? The rules change for various roads. This would be an easy answer in a society where the roads are private - let the owners decide. But it’s not private, so the decisions are left to government. If you want to protest or have a parade, you need to go through government, which means that the government will ban anyone else from using the road while you are using it for your event.
The situation with domain names is no different. We are not in a system where domain names are privately owned. Well, in a sense they are in that ICANN is in charge. Since ICANN owns them, ICANN gets to make the rules. If it were the government that owned them, the government would get to make the rules. As libertarians, clearly we don’t think that the government should own them or that ICANN’s claims are legitimate.
If Ron Paul wanted to organize a parade on Main Street, he would need to go through government. Maybe we would prefer that the store owners are the ones who own the road in front of their stores, maybe it wouldn’t be the case. Who knows? What we know is that the government does own the road, and if you want to use it for something other than driving, you need to go through them. With your position, you would be accusing Ron Paul of using the government to aggress against the people who own buildings on the road. It is not clear that they would be the legitimate owners, and it is perfectly reasonable and not contrary to libertarianism for Ron Paul to request the use of roads from the government for a parade.
How DNS Works and Fixing DNS - how to break up ICANN by Brad Templeton. From the first link:
From this, it sounds like you are paying ICANN to put your domain name on a list so that when others search for your domain name, they get routed to your site. But they don’t have to use ICANN’s list. It’s convenient to use ICANN’s list because everyone else does, just like it’s convenient to use the US dollar because everyone else does (hahaha, because the US government would totally accept taxes paid in goods, but I digress). So no one owns “ronpaul.com”. They register with ICANN so that “ronpaul.com” routes to the servers they want. Ron Paul is appealing to the rules that the ICANN list routes to him instead of the other people. He is not violating someone’s “homesteaded” domain name. Absurd.