[10707] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain Name NASA.COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Sat Jul 12 09:22:56 1997
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 97 12:59:36 GMT
From: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: jamie@intuition.iagnet.net (Jamie Rishaw)
> RFC_Violation: You saw it here first!
> From: jamie@intuition.iagnet.net (Jamie Rishaw)
> I've been a longstanding cheerleader for the NIC, but
>
That was your first mistake. Although what can one expect from someone
who brags about violating RFCs?
> Today, without notice, the InterNIC turned "off" the domain name NASA.COM,
> a domain which had been registered now for over two years.
>
May I suggest that your customer sue, not the FTC or NASA, but the
Internic for violation of the contract. You paid a fee, they are
required to follow their own procedures. You should be able to get
quite a bit for actual and punitive damages.
And you would be doing all the rest of us a service, by setting a
precedent. We really cannot have Internic becoming an extension of the
US government, or making arbitrary actions. But enforcement of
contracts generally requires a court.
As far as I can see, you wouldn't even have to prove that NASA.COM was
"in a manner reasonably calculated to convey the impression". That
would be up to NASA and/or FTC, should Internic get them to come to the
court (third party cross complaint, perhaps).
Although, for curiousities sake, what did this NASA stand for, and what
was their product?
WSimpson@UMich.edu
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