It's so creepy how they always spin these sort of decisions.

> This decision will suffocate innovation and deter future investment in the domain industry.

I'm sure we'll really miss the lack of innovation in registering a damn domain name.

Erik Brooks at Donuts and Fadi's only innovation was exploiting the DNS to make more money by opening up new gTLDs and increasing prices. That's what we stopped today. Good job.

> Today’s action opens the door for ICANN to unilaterally reject future transfer requests based on agenda-driven pressure by outside parties.

Awww shucks. They're pissed ICANN realised they might not get away with this one so played it safe this time around.