Paul,
You're going after the wrong guys. NSI doesn't have the authority, DOC/NTIA
does. NSI is blocking entries, in to the root servers, on direct orders
from DOC/NTIA, and NSF before them. The USG routinely indemnifies its
contractors as long as they follow orders.
At 10:37 PM 3/20/99 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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!
>>>>
>
>
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