[82946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue Aug 2 06:29:29 2005
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:29:01 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0508011129130.1697-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
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> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Bj=F8rn Mork wrote:
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> > The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good
> > answer. Does anyone here have one?
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> to avoid being technical i guess the only answer would be to say this is =
a=20
> private service offered to tiscali users and is not available to any non =
tiscali=20
> users (you might want to point out this is 99.9% of the world in case $cu=
st=20
> feels like switching)
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> > Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids...
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> > "Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no
> > extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too. How soon can we
> > start doing the same?"
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> tell them you've been able to do it all along, its your network and you c=
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> provide any unique content that you like, providing they understand this =
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> unique for your custs only .. think intranet
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> > This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually also=
North
> > American ISPs (to make this on-topic :-) I hope the rest of us can stan=
d
> > together against it. A good start would be to come up with a common re=
sponse
> > to the two pressure groups outlined above.
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> a better worded explanation on a webpage would be good i guess...
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> anyway, i'm off the the UNIDT website, i hear '.tiscali' hasnt been regis=
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> yet ;p
replying to myself. bad :)
had this pointed out.. these are "official" according to inaic
http://inaic.com/index.php?p=3Dfaq006
and resolving "all known tlds" seems a bit of a stretch, i think they've mi=
ssed=20
my '.foobar' tld on my local nameservers..
http://inaic.com/index.php?p=3Dfaq014
also for added humour, from the press release
http://inaic.com/index.php?p=3Dtiscali-introduces
following the link: http://home.tiscali/
doesnt seem to work for me, hmm.. not great to have a broken link in a publ=
ic=20
press release ;)
Steve
