[8864] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: offtopic for NANOG - do not read
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff White)
Sat Apr 26 15:39:59 1997
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 12:37:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Geoff White <geoffw@precipice.v-site.net>
To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
cc: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu, edns-discuss@mcs.net,
newdom@ar.com
In-Reply-To: <19970426134600.25487@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>
> I'd like you to point out the major corporations and public universities who
> will do this. I'd also like you to immediately return that nice root server
> that NSI has paid for in part or whole, if you really believe this.
>
> Anyone trying to take "COM" and point it somewhere else will find that they
> have created a class-action lawsuit with 1,000,000 plaintiffs -- all the
> people who you instantly disconnect that have COM domains.
>
> Anyone trying to STEAL NSI's COM zone (to appropriate it as their own) will
> likely find themselves on the wrong end of a monstrous lawsuit, not to
> mention potential felony theft charges.
NSI does not own the root domain .com .org .net or any other TLD.
They were *hired* by the NSF to manage the registration of domain names
for these TLDs, and they have done a deplorable job. They are now being
fired, if anyone is opening themselves up for a class action suite it is
NSI for not relinquishing property that they have no legal right to claim
as their own.
Sheese!!!
I wondered back in '78 how no-nothing dim witted liberal arts majors would
ever find a way to make money on the Net, now I know... They all became
Lawyers.
geoffw
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