I did not realize that. It was my assumption that the government had
delegated the responsibility of managing the namespace to them, not just the
servers. Now I really dont understand where ICANN is coming from with a lot
of this stuff.
As I said, you dont learn unless you ask (or make stupid comments which
someone corrects). : - )
Thanks William.
- matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Matt Prigge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Patrick Greenwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Guennadi Moukine"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: Re[2]: New TLDs working already?
> Hello Matt,
>
> Thursday, May 10, 2001, 2:58:39 PM, Matt Prigge wrote:
> > I am somewhat surprised that ICANN is taking what you are doing sitting
down
> > though. Given the iron fist manner in which they have been giving out
TLDs I
> > would have thought they would have tried to sue you for trampling on
their
> > exclusive contract to do so.
>
> ICANN has no such exclusive contract, and in fact could not be given
> one (it would be unlawful). They can only manage what goes into their
> own root servers, just like New.net can, and just like any other
> privately run root server network can.
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Owner, Userfriendly.com
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>
>
