[8911] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NEWDOM: Re: Read this...Re: offtopic for NANOG - do not read
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Sun Apr 27 02:04:38 1997
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 08:57:51 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: newdom@ar.com, edns-discuss@Mcs.Net, Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.970426145119.240H-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Michael Dillon wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Carl Oppedahl wrote:
>
> > 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:
>
> That's just the current management of NSI. They can be replaced.
> Once the shareholders of NSI realize that there is more hay to be made by
> cooperating with the IAHC and by getting back to Network Solutions' roots,
> then this whole tempest in a teapot will evaporate.
I would have thought that if NSI applied to be a registrar and won the
lottery, they would be a 900 pound gorilla compared to the 2-3 man
operations currently gearing up to be registrars. If I was management I
would see golden opportunities by having a bunch more gTLDs open up and
operations ready to handle 100,000 applications in a week. Even if I lost
- I could become an outsourcer for those that win - providing technical
consulting and backoffice operations support. If I was a stock holder
with SIAC I would be quite annoyed by now by their company losing out on a
potential golden egg that they have a leg up on.
>
> Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
> Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049
> http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
>
Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
[the views expressed above belong to the author and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the other IAHC members]