>> Big ol giggle. A client asked me recently if I thought the NIC would cut
off
>> their domain because their payment was late. Heh. As you said, imagine
the
>> lawsuits!
>I don't see the lawsuit issue at all. Maybe I'm missing something.
A year ago or so, the Nic tried to shut down a few domain names, including
major names. The Nic's tech dept. wasn't talking to their billing dept. and
neither talks to their accounts paid dept. But the domains were active and
paid up. I think they even shut down one of Microsoft's main sites, because
they couldn't find the paid bill.
Thus a threat of a lawsuit would include loss of income. Imagine shutting
down www.dell.com for just an hour! That kind of money flow would send our
entire list to Tahiti. And it'd ruin the Internic.
Which is the same problem with those people who are sitting on www.kodak.com
(or whatever) and are trying to get Kodak, Inc. to "buy" the name. Is it
copyrighted? Is it legal? At first, the Internic just handed these names out
to anyone. But then they tried to give them to corporations. Of course,
people threatened to sue. Imagine 100,000 lawsuits (there are at least that
many squatters). So now, the Internic just tries to stay out of the way.
The shoemaker's kids are always barefoot. The Internic wasn't capable for
years of doing credit card billing. There's no simple way to check the
status of your account. One of my domain names has wrong contact information
on it; after two years, I've given up of trying to correct it.
A few months ago, while writing a manual, I used a girlfriend's name to
create an example of a domain name. Out of curiosity, I checked at the
Internic and some squatter had it. I began checking various girls' names:
every name that you can think of has been taken by squatters. Dog names, cat
names, everything. It's all taken by squatters. One gets the feeling that
somone wrote a script that takes a common English dictionary and then
registered every single word in the dictionary.
Maybe the Japanese attitude isn't so bad. Domain names should only be for a
registered business, with no more than three per company.
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