William -
The letter is great - I can not highlight enough how important it is all
resellers to take the time to read it, and get involved in helping us bring
this issue forward. It is certainly coming to a head now. Please use all
means available (harness any communities you can, Slashdot, mailing lists,
your own users, etc...) to promote the real issues here, which I see as:
- Tucows policies on transfers fully comply with ICANN regulations, and
work, in addition to being consumer friendly
- Verisign refuses to acknowledge resellers or even the wholesale model,
and ignorantly feels that as a result of their monopoly that customers
actually selected them as a service provider (which is the biggest myth
since the Loch Ness monster) - they continually act in a way that directly
attacks resellers, who represent the majority of name registrations
- end users trust their service providers to select suppliers, that is the
value they provide
- this muddying of the issues is a naive response deliberately orchestrated
by Verisign as a result of their declining market share in the registration
business - essentially, the reality that the majority of their revenue is
not earned (by offering any true value) but is leftover from their
monopolistic advantage that they enjoyed for years
Thanks again to William and all who take the time to help bring the real
issues forward. Ross is co-ordinating our response, he may be asking for
more info/data from you, and or looking for people/resellers and end users
with particularly compelling interactions on this issues for interviews
with press. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you feel you have or are a candidate
for this initiative.
Regards,
sA
At 02:54 PM 7/19/01 -0700, William X. Walsh wrote:
>Initial rough draft of my letter is online at
>http://www.userfriendly.com/transferletter.html
>
>If you have suggested changes, rewording, additional comments, etc,
>please submit them to me. If you want to rewrite it (I admit I'm not
>the greatest at this :) please submit your rewrite to me, I'll
>gladly consider it.
>
>If you wish to add your name to this letter, email me your name, email
>address, and company affiliation.
>
>We need to answer this, ourselves, as the very people who are
>essentially being accused of committing these acts of domain slamming
>by Verisign. We need to do so as a community, with one load voice.
>
>
>
>Thursday, July 19, 2001, 1:43:18 PM, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> > Hello Scott,
>
> > Thursday, July 19, 2001, 12:21:52 PM, Scott Allan wrote:
>
> >> this:
>
> >> http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168146.html
>
> > The letter from Cochetti to Stuart Lynn (CEO of ICANN) is at:
> > http://www.icann.org/correspondence/cochetti-to-lynn-16jul01.htm
>
> > I am currently drafting a letter in response to this, because I feel
> > Verisign's painting of legitimate transfers done by companies like my
> > own and other associates who are OpenSRS RSPs (who have been paid by
> > our customers to handle their domain registration needs even before
> > ICANN was in existence) as "unauthorized domain slamming" is
> > offensive.
>
> > I will post a draft here shortly, and put it up on my site as well,
> > and ask others who are in agreement to have their names added to it
> > before it is sent to ICANN and whomever else would be appropriate.
>
>
>
>
>--
>Best regards,
>William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Userfriendly.com Domains
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Scott Allan
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