[8887] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Read this...Re: offtopic for NANOG - do not read
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Fleming)
Sat Apr 26 17:04:30 1997
From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@Unir.Corp>
To: Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>
Cc: Geoff White <geoffw@precipice.v-site.net>, Karl Denninger
<karl@MCS.Net>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>, "newdom@ar.com" <newdom@ar.com>,
Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 15:50:44 -0500
On Saturday, April 26, 1997 12:54 PM, Carl Oppedahl[SMTP:carl@oppedahl.com] wrote:
@ At 04:31 PM 04/26/97 -0400, Vince Wolodkin wrote:
@
@ >The only
@ >thing NSI has truly done that is awful is their TM dispute policy, and
@ >the IAHC has taken that very thing under its own wing.
@
@ Unfortunately for the Internet community, NSI has made it clear that it
@ doesn't plan to yield any control over .COM to anyone else, ever:
@
@ Networks Solutions seemed more definite. "It is not our
@ intention to share .com or the others [domains] we
@ register," Network Solutions spokesman
@ Christopher Clough said. "Those would obviously [be]
@ assets that we've developed . . . much as Microsoft
@ wouldn't share DOS," its proprietary software.
@ Network Solutions favors competition, but only in the
@ registration of new types of domains, Clough said.
@
@ (Network Solutions Dropped as Registrar Of Internet
@ Domains, By David S. Hilzenrath, April 24 1997; The Washington Post.)
@
@ Thus, it seems likely that (barring a shift in control over .COM) NSI would
@ continue forever, carrying out its awful policy and putting innocent domain
@ name owners out of business.
@
@ The only way that innocent domain name owners will have the cloud of NSI's
@ awful domain name policy lifted from their heads is if indeed the control
@ over .COM shifts elsewhere. So far as I can see, the most likely way for
@ that to happen is if IAHC's plans move forward and are put into place.
@
@
@
@
@
People and companies can now register in
other domains than .COM.
Why would a company want a .COM domain
when they can have something more expressive ?
--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
http://www.Unir.Corp
Check out...http://www.Naperville.Mall
