[35295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Tue Mar 6 14:50:24 2001
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:04:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Paul A Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>
> > Too bad ICANN has been such a complete and utter failure that an
> > organization felt it necessary to start such a business, huh?
>
> ICANN's prospective failure is evidently in the mind of the beholder.
Besides producing a UDRP that allows trademark interests to convienently
reverse-hijack domains and the selection of a handful of lackluster
TLDs from a pool of applicants paying a non-refundable 50k fee in a
completely arbitrary and capricious process, perhaps you could point to
some of the many successes of ICANN as an organization?
