On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, at 01:04 [=GMT+0100], Fagyal Csongor wrote:
> Many proposals were turned down... It was a long but interesting broadcast.
> Finally they have got to .web :-) Supporters for IOD claimed (of course
> unofficially) that Affilias bribed ICANN officials (guess they would not
> like to loose their existing .web registrations... OpenSRS, go for .moo!).
> Others claimed that IOD (this opinion was voiced on the meeting) was
> operating a working .web root registry and this behaviour should be
> discouraged. But I guess you all know this...
>
> Finally someone (a very brave guy he had to be :-)) pushed through a vote
> for postponing the delegation of .web because of the debate, but second
> .info for Affilias. Meeting dimissed. I do not care about the other TLDs :-)
I found it most confusing. I thought they had reached a decision and
registered biznameweb.com, only to find a few minutes later that they
changed their minds and I wanted bizinfoname.com.
Well, all's well that ends well...
Congratulations to Tucows!
--
Marc Schneiders (rest in header)
