On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well known fact is that New.net is profitable. > "New.net Continues Growth, Diversifies Product Offerings And Reaches > Profitability as Internet Naming Industry and ICANN Falter" > http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=156973&TICK=NEWN&STO > RY=/www/story/06-17-2002/0001748590&EDATE=Jun+17,+2002
wel i dont; know - thats PR - public relations and i don't trust PR. I rmember they let go some people not so long ago and downsized considerably. does anyone remember that. > There is some reasonable traffic. > According to "Alexas most popular sites on the Web" New.net (including all > its sub-domains like health.shop.new.net) holds position number 114. > http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500?p=Dest500_W_t_40_M1&page=2 maybe thats the problem. they resolve their tlds within us namespace and of course the servers won't get hit with bogus queries. i would really love to see the data from caida. frankly i'm sure new.net is somewhere in the dump. even origins with 500 sources are an indication of significant activity within the dns. > Nobody can claim to have exclusive rights to a TLD. > I could open a .God registry tomorrow, legally. of course you can and no you can't. in fact if you do this transmission not only proves civil liability but possibly intent to malice and that would place you in criminal court for the illegal appropriation of our namespace. in fact this happened to us. one evil bugger many here will remember - one thomas goolnik - a peddler of questionable reputation - attempted just that. he first asked me if he could be a .god registrar. i said no. we don't want registrars just yet. were ready = but there's no hurry. so what happened is the bugger went out and started pddling .god domain via spam. not only intentionally violating our proprietary right - but giving a bad name as spammers. this of course was intollerable behaviour and instead of proceeding via civil injunction proceedings we elected proceeding by criminal complaint and had scotland yard all ready to give Mr. Goolnik a bunk in the queens gaol next to some big burly boy who found him pretty. of course this did not happen. his barrister spoke with our barrister, mr. goolnik was advised warned and counciled, and the illegal .god domain sales came to an end. our legals were even used by the ftc to develop a case against mr. goolnik. oh yes - tlds are protected by some very old legislation. the internet maybe new - but the products it produces have been around for a long long time. its a data habit we've had since we've started collecting and compiling data - babylon comes to mind. regards joe baptista Joe Baptista - only at www.baptista.god .books domain registration http://www.register.books an inclusive namespace provider
