On 22-Mar-99 A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
> Over the coming months, there will be more NSI-like
> registrars, as well as new TLD registries. Their sites will look
> like search engine and other effective provider sites everywhere -
> using every available means to attract and retain customers.
>
> A year from now, this will be a fuzzy initial edge of a much
> broader transition we will only vaguely recollect.
I'd like to know why you believe there were be new TLD registries in "the
coming months."
Everything I have seen indicates that is months if not years away.
I think you are trying to paint this as something inconsequential that will be
resolved shortly, when there really is nothing to support that.
First of all, NSI should NOT have the right to point the internic.net domain
name to their new registrar site. No other registrar gets to benefit from the
traffic of what was the former "registry" no matter what Chuck and NSI's
management calls it. Further, ISPs are deeply affected by this change. NSI may
not feel they have any obligation to them, but they are deeply affected by such
changes. I know of one who is so angry at NSI he is pointing their domain
names to a local site in his dns in protest, and tell his customers they can
register names through his interfaces at no charge. ISPs that formerly linked
to the internic site did so because it was a "neutral" and safe thing to do.
Without notice, NSI took advantage of that and forwarded that domain to a site
that advertises services that directly compete with them, including web
hosting (the .com business card is nothing more than a single page webhosting
service, no matter what you call it).
NSI claimed to stand for an open and fair transition to a competitive market,
but its actions speak to a totally different attitude.
Your coloring of this situation differently is disingenious Tony, and nothing
more than trying to paint a rosey picture for your client.
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William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
General Manager, DSo Internet Services
Date: 22-Mar-99
Time: 14:24:55
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