[57624] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Independent space from ARIN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland )
Tue Apr 15 06:09:31 2003
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, brunner@nic-naa.net
In-Reply-To: Message from Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
of "Tue, 15 Apr 2003 07:39:48 +0200." <5.1.0.14.2.20030415073121.00fb5158@max.att.net.il>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 06:02:07 -0400
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I am sure Microsoft would love to have this implemented. For them to drop,
> say, $5b and buy up all remaining available IP address space is no big
> deal. ...
Howdy Hank,
Back when I was contributing to "Working Group C" (ICANN New gTLDs), through
the clutter of trademark zealots (no new tlds ever) and anarchists (zillions
now) the insight swept over me one like-verisign-to-compeat-verisign evening.
Everyone wanting "in" was an amature, or one of the six new registrars, and
a cut above amature, and no one had deep pockets, except courtesy of the dot
gone bubble. So who could sweep this market, and bundle a domain name into
their product...
It hasn't happened. My crystal ball has a crack.
Eric
