[10806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain Name NASA.COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Mon Jul 14 16:44:23 1997
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:04:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, Jamie Rishaw <jamie@intuition.iagnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <6249.wsimpson@greendragon.com>
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> 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?
>
Just FYI, The Hackers Defense Fund (http://www.hackerz.org) has a class
action lawsuit against The InterNIC for some reason or another. I don't
know where they are at with it, but I saw Mike Roadancer this weekend, and
he said that it was going well...
Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services
"Learn more, and you will never starve." - Paraphrase of Lee
