They want to control it all because if you control the names, the numbers, and the machines, you've got it. The potential for making money and influencing where that money goes is enormous.

What they do in the big-business world is fine, but there's room for indies [independent registrars] and that's what we are. It's our turn. We want our things in the same root servers around the world on our own terms.

To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.

Farmers are obviously running water and starting up their wind machines, hiring helicopters to go up and mix up the air a little bit. But when it gets down to a certain temperature, there is only so much a farmer can do.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

At least I have a little control sometimes over what's happening. She doesn't.