Re: Registrars serve no useful purpose

2005-01-22 Thread Steve Sobol
Joe Rhett wrote: What if a company doesn't want to deal with any registrar? What if they just want to register their domain name and have it stay registered. I really can't think of any domain name registrant that this statement doesn't apply to -- even the spammers. shrug The purpose is so that

Re: Registrars serve no useful purpose

2005-01-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a matter of choosing a registrar that has the right business model and services to suit the registrant. What if a company doesn't want to deal with any registrar? What if they just want to register their domain name and have it stay registered. For some

Re: Registrars serve no useful purpose

2005-01-19 Thread David M. Besonen
[a dated, biased (what isn't?), insightful, and relevant interview] Published on Policy DevCenter (http://www.oreillynet.com/policy/) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/12/05/karl.html Karl Auerbach: ICANN Out of Control by Richard Koman 12/05/2002 Editor's note: Strong forces

Re: Registrars serve no useful purpose

2005-01-19 Thread David M. Besonen
the panix.com incident, a few nights of dreaming solutions, and this interview lead me wonder about p2p dns. david

Re: Registrars serve no useful purpose

2005-01-19 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
And, on this point, I believe Karl was right. $.02, - ferg -- David M. Besonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Auerbach: The public interest is not being served. -- Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]