I can't agree with you more. However, considering the current state of
things, I think the best solution is to quickly start your own TLD, and
compete.
Once people realize the market is flooded with expensive, crappy domains
that hardly work, they will switch back to com/net/org.
- Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: New.Net and OpenSRS
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> > Sorry, but you are wrong on some of your facts here.
>
> 'Wrong' is a such a strong word.
>
> I am aware that besides the plug-ins, new.net is offering an alternate
> root. My original email said "through a browser plugin or messing with
> client DNS settings or reconfiguring internal name servers," which I think
> covers all the possiblities. I said that their domains were arranged
> under new.net because to a person using root-servers.net they are, and
> that is the accepted standard.
>
> My message was not intended to be a technical treatise on the Domain Name
> System, and I do apologize if I mislead anyone. But somehow I doubt it.
>
> My intent was to explain to people who might not understand that this
> enterprise is working completely outside ICANN, IANA, IETF, and the other
> organizations that are attempting to keep the "Inter" in "Internet." It
> requires complete dependence on New.net (who makes no representations or
> warranties of any kind whatsoever --
> http://www.new.net/read_only_registration.tp).
>
> I do not think that New.net makes it at all clear that this a proprietary
> setup and that the 'domains' that you purchase from them may not work for
> the majority of Internet users -- and the messages that David Dorey pasted
> tend to support that.
>
> Their technology is even "patent-pending." What are they tring to patent
> exactly, the type hint; directive in BIND or the search directive in
> resolv.conf? Or is it a "Technique for Circumventing Established
> Standards via the Manipulation of Marketing Personnel?" Ricoculous.
>
> --
> ...Craig
>
>
>
