Hi Patrick,
The last time there was discussion about your private root servers, there
were a number of questions and comments you or new.net did not respond to.
That in itself makes me seriously question what your company is doing, as
well as a number of other very significant issues. Other questions you
refused to answer included who are your shareholders and what is the
financial and power structure of your company. You seemed to think it was
none of my business to ask. Well, that lack of transparency sent a warning
flag up to me.
You recently wrote.
snip.
> disclosure" we are very comfortable that people who register names at New.net
> know what they are getting.
I am opposed to your private company controlling and selling domain names
for words that are in the public domain. I simply don't trust that a
private company will manage this resource properly. If you have, for
arguements sake, one major shareholder, then it's possible that 1 person on
the planet will control and profit from 100's if not 1000's of public domain
word suffixes. There is something wrong with that.
Certain aspects of the Net MUST remain in the public domain. One of those
is domain names.
With that said, i am no fan of Icann, but i am less of a fan of what you
are attempting to do.
No private company should be able to control something as significant as
TLD's. For 2 reasons. (likely others as well, but it's time to sleep.)
1. Language or communication must default to being available to all. It is
our collective public domain. Imo, you have no right to attempt to control
or monopolize or politicize .kids .xxx or . whatever common word we all
share/use collectively. It is potentially dangerous and hazardous.
2. If you go out of business in the next 48 hours, then there is a
possibility all those websites will go dead. This could do serious
economic, political and cultural damage to website owners and internet users
who use new.net's roots.
I kept it brief and simple for now.
I really need to smoke.
If you are serious about discussing or dealing with new.net in a public
forum, i suggest you attempt to answer all questions and concerns.
Swerve
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It is multiple points of failure, multiple points of adventure, multiple
points of vibrating and undulating bliss, multiple points of hellish
ignorance, multiple points of sexy, multiple points of toxicity, multiple
points of corruption, multiple points of revolution, multiple points of
pornography, multiple points of murder, multiple points of heartWrenching
love, multiple points of erotica, multiple points of play, multiple points
of wretched prisons, multiple points of seemingly endless nausea, multiple
points of minor breakthrus, multiples points of utter exhaustion, multiple
points of small simple things that may remind us of how Earth is not a
single point of failure.
> From: Patrick Greenwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 17:38:59 -0700 (PDT)
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Mark Jeftovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ivan \(Netazoid\)"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: new.net
>
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> It is very likely causing confusion.
>
> I belive I've said this before in this forum, but just in case:
> At the bottom nearly every page of the New.net site there is an
> informational message which explains that names are accessible through
> partner ISPs and to those who activate their browser.
>
> We're not burying it in a user agreement which few people ever read, and
> while I'm certain that there are those that would settle for nothing less than
> 100 point flashing red type at the top of every page as constituting "adequate
> disclosure" we are very comfortable that people who register names at New.net
> know what they are getting.
>
>
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> Patrick Greenwell
> Earth is a single point of failure.
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