If you read the questions posted at ICANNs share your thoughts page : http://www.icann.org/en/groups/other/gtld-directory-services/share-24jun13-en.htm, it's clear they've already made their decision to move forward this this ridiculous plan.

Whois is an invaluable tool for web hosters and managed service providers. To say we'll need to request access to this information in the future is absurd. I see no security "risks" with the whois information being available. If i'm able to legally look up ownership and tax records for property in the US, why is it more dangerous to view the ownership details of a domain name / ip block?

I simply don't understand what they hope to "fix" with this system.

the company could promise people dont use it as a place to vent their frustrations with customers.

... at zombo.com.

News scraping sites have their place, but they are not considered metabrowsers by today's standards. They are only news aggregation sites, which are usually only part of a person's daily visits.

"Scraped news sites" don't satisfy my frequent browsing routine. Besides 3 global news sites I also view local news/weather, Yahoo Mail, 3 forums, trillian.cc, SecuriTeam.com, colo site stats, comics, etc...

If your web browsing habits are not limited to the news available on popular portals, you should try something like QuickBrowse or DailyRoutine. Those sites let you add Slashdot, eBay, Hotmail, ESPN, Weather.com, ... everything you want.

Saying that a news site is the only metabrowser you need is like saying "Oh I couldn't use a butler because I already read the newspaper every day." A butler could bring you the paper, make your coffee, drive you to the bank, walk the dog, screen your mail...

Glad to see a mention of DailyRoutine on Slashdot.

I built DailyRoutine back in 1999 after seeing the stats in the back of Business 2.0 that the average Internet user browses about 30 pages (5 unique sites) 5 times a week. I noticed my own browsing habits were similar (but magnified :-), and built a tool to help out.

Since then I've rewritten it a few times and added interesting features.

Hope you enjoy it,
-AAron