I just noticed that IFWP was not an addressee when I replied on this:
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:32:08 -0700
>To: Karl Auerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Bill Lovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [IFWP] Announcement of the new TLD Association (TLDA)
>
>At 06:48 PM 4/28/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>> At this point, NSI is the only gTLD registry.
>>
>>Not true. I operate a registry, of which I happen to be the only client
>>at the moment, for some TLD's which I designate as .com, .edu, .net, .org.
>
>Now this is getting silly. I also operate a registry after having had a hole
>cut in my den floor for communication purposes, and on that registry I
>have the domains upstairs.com and downstairs.com (for conducting money
>transactions with myself), upstairs.org and downstairs.org (for forming a
>thinktank with myself and my cats), upstairs.edu and downstairs.edu (for
>educating myself about the insanity of internet gurus), upstairs.net and
>downstairs.net (for networking with myself and my cats), upstairs.mil and
>downstairs.mil (for making war with myself and especially with my cats),
>and a few others I shall think up so that I can sit here and gloat over the
>fact that none of NSI, NTIA or ICANN can touch me. All of the above are
>in a gTLD registry nevertheless.
>
>Bill Lovell
>
>>
>>These are, of course, entirely distinct from those of similar name
>>operated under a government contract by NSI.
>>
>>Neither NSI nor NTIA nor ICANN have any power to establish or empower a
>>registry to the exclusion of anyone else, such as myself, who wants to
>>operate one.
>>
>>And since I don't let any but a circle of friends use it, there is no
>>risk of secondary issues arising, such as trademark conflict.
>>
>>But it is a gTLD registry nevertheless.
>>
>> --karl--
>>
>>
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