[92802] in Cypherpunks
Re: More on Association for Interactive Media conference
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Miller)
Thu Jan 8 06:25:32 1998
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 14:51:01 -0800
From: David Miller <dm0@avana.net>
To: declan@well.com
CC: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Reply-To: David Miller <dm0@avana.net>
Declan McCullagh wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
>
> Note that AIM, the sponsors of the "WashingtonWeb" conference, are the
> folks who appear to be paid stooges for Network Solutions in trying to
> keep their ten million dollar per month monopoly on domain names.
> AIM's coverage of that issue has been completely false and completely
> biased ("The Internet is likely to break apart on October 15, 1997";
> "you may lose all rights to use your trademark in your Internet
> address forever". See www.interactivehq.org/oic/).
From the January 5, 1998 issue of Internet Week, page 14:
"Network Solutions, Inc., which registers domain names
under an agreement with the National Science Foundation,
will have the [DNS] agreement extended six months beyond
its March 1998 conclusion to ensure the stability of the
system."
--David Miller
