>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!
>>
