At 01:28 AM 3/29/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Bill and all,
>
>Bill Lovell wrote:
>
>> At 09:13 PM 3/28/99 +0000, you wrote:
>> >Jay, Bill and all,
>> >
>> > It appears that there is again some need to clarify terms with respect
>> >to Registrar, Registry, and Registrant as they relate to property rights
>> >and ownership.
>> >
>> >So if I may be so bold I will offer the following understanding:
>> >
>> >1.) The REGISTRY- Owns the database for those gTLD's that are contained
>> > within that database(s).
>> >
>> Well, we part company pretty fast. A registry is a computer full of data.
>> The data gets there when registrars register domain names for
>> registrants. Who OWNS the data in the registry is an entirely different
>> question; NSI evidently likes to think that it owns all of the data in the
>> InterNic registry, and precisely that, I believe, is the question -- or one
>> of them.
>
> Right BIll I agree. And I believe this is what I said. However there is
>NO doubt that NSI owns the Registry itself...
What, the friggin' COMPUTER? I don't think that the terms "ownership"
and "registry" co-exist in the same universe.
Bill Lovell
>
