Well, folks, now that NSI has antitrust immunity,
NSI-CANN do as they please.....
at least until Name.Space wins its appeal.
regards,
Paul Garrin
Name.Space, Inc.
http://name.space.xs2.net
>>Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 18:43:57 -0800
>>To: Paul Goldstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>From: Bill Lovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: InterNIC + WorldNIC = NSI Registrary
>>
>>At 07:31 PM 3/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>>"So, come to Network Solutions to Register the Web Address you need...
>>>we're
>>>the dot com people� and we've put more .com, .net and .org Web Addresses
>>>into service than every other Internet company combined."
>>
>>This is the part of it that absolutely slays me. USG contractor NSI had the
>>SOLE
>>authority to register .com, .net, .org, but now the transmuted NSOL, as
>>it now
>>appears on the stock exchange, is taking the credit for what NSI did and is
>>thus commercially claiming credit for what we taxpayers (and all you ISPs
>>and
>>your customers) paid for. Not only that, you've all been sucked into the
>>TM/DN
>>cauldron: how many thousands upon thousands of registries were made, just
>>because NSI created in the minds of everyone the TM = DN equivalence, and
>>thereby STARTED the Oklahoma land rush among all the speculators?
>>
>>And how many of you received in the mail NSI's "Your client's company or
>>brand name is up for grabs in more than 80 countries. Make sure you claim
>>it first." I sure got one, and I'm no ISP. The letter absolutely PUSHES the
>>notion that Joe Schmuck in Afghanistan or wherever might register YOUR
>>NAME -- so you'd BETTER GET IT FIRST. I may puke.
>>
>>These things have a way of coming back to haunt.
>>
>>Bill Lovell
>>
>>>Paul Goldstone
>>>Domain-It!
>>>
