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RE: 252 Active TLDs
by Vadim Antonov 26 Mar '97

26 Mar '97

Jim Fleming <JimFleming(a)unety.net> wrote: On Wednesday, March 26, 1997 6:58 PM, Vadim Antonov[SMTP:avg@pluris.com] wrote: @ I want to register TLD .XXX with eDNS. What should i do @ about it? @ >If you want to register in the .XXX Top Level Domain >then you need to visit the registry just as you would >with the InterNIC. Here are some of the operational >registries: Nah, you don't understand. Somebody have already taken .XXX. I suppose that claim is illegitimate, and the rights to that TLD belong to me. You see, i own the trademark XXX (cyrillic HA-HA-HA), valid in Russian Federation. Now, would you please hand me rights to dispose the TLD .XXX as i see fit? --vadim

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RE: 252 Active TLDs
by Jim Fleming 26 Mar '97

26 Mar '97

On Wednesday, March 26, 1997 8:11 PM, Vadim Antonov[SMTP:avg@pluris.com] wrote: @ Jim Fleming <JimFleming(a)unety.net> wrote: @ @ On Wednesday, March 26, 1997 6:58 PM, Vadim Antonov[SMTP:avg@pluris.com] wrote: @ @ I want to register TLD .XXX with eDNS. What should i do @ @ about it? @ @ @ @ >If you want to register in the .XXX Top Level Domain @ >then you need to visit the registry just as you would @ >with the InterNIC. Here are some of the operational @ >registries: @ @ Nah, you don't understand. Somebody have already taken @ .XXX. I suppose that claim is illegitimate, and the rights to @ that TLD belong to me. You see, i own the trademark XXX (cyrillic @ HA-HA-HA), valid in Russian Federation. @ @ Now, would you please hand me rights to dispose the TLD .XXX as @ i see fit? @ It sounds like you would be a good candidate to be a "channel partner". You should contact the .XXX registry. Of course you could also start the .HAHAHA Top Level Domain. If you want to start the HAHAHA.MALL check with me...;-) -- Jim Fleming Unir Corporation http://www.Unir.Corp Check out...http://Register.A.Mall

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Re: 252 Active TLDs
by Vadim Antonov 26 Mar '97

26 Mar '97

I want to register TLD .XXX with eDNS. What should i do about it? --vadim

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InterNIC responds to me
by George Herbert 26 Mar '97

26 Mar '97

I just finished up a phone conversation (45 min or so) with Chuck Gomes at InterNIC (NSI), regarding the recent set of problems that have happened with various domains. While it appears that a number of issues remain to be investegated, I think that Chuck addressed most of the major concerns I had and said he's investegating the other concerns. He said they are working on a FAQ / info release on recent events and hope to send it out tomorrow, though he couldn't guarantee it would be that soon. The most important thing that came up in the conversation was that the event that appears to have percipitated the rash of public complaints is that they are in the process of catching up their billing status so that domains that haven't paid are now in the 30-15-5-hold-deleted track not sitting in limbo for months before being acted on. This means that they are now seeing many many months worth of minor accumulated errors hitting all at once, effectively. Chuck said that they are implimenting a new problem handling procedure, if your domain is about to go on hold email to billing@internic with the keywords URGENT and DEACTIVATION in the subject will get seen most promptly and he stated that their policy is that they are supposed to always err on the side of leaving domains turned on while issues are investegated. He did comment that they have had problems with that not always being the case, but he's working on making sure that policy is consistent in all cases. We also talked about various specific problems they've been seeing and he disclosed some failures they had recently in check and credit card billing accounting and in domain status processing. He said that they'd fixed most of them shortly after they occurred, but a few were lingering on and are expected to be fixed this week. The problem of having credit card payments not going to the right domain (and he brought up a related problem, refunds in multi-payment cases) he said was known and being looked at. I don't think they know what they are going to do about it yet but they are aware of it. I did comment that they need more proactive communications about things like this, and he said they have a fulltime communications director who's been hired and is coming up to speed. On the whole, I am a lot less unhappy about recent events than I was yesterday, I think he addressed the concerns I had about what's going on. There are problems, some of which they know remain large and unresolved, but I don't think now that we saw a sudden bitrot in their databases last week. I'm looking forwards to the official announcement... -george william herbert gherbert(a)crl.com

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252 Active TLDs
by Jim Fleming 26 Mar '97

26 Mar '97

According to our latest study, there are 252 active Top Level Domains with Name Servers, etc. @@@@@ As of 6:00 PM CST March 26, 1997 800 AD AE AG AGN AI AL AM AN AO AQ AR ARPA ART ARTS AT AU AUDIO AUTO AW AZ BA BB BE BF BG BH BI BIZ BJ BM BN BO BR BS BW BY BZ CA CF CG CH CI CITY CK CL CM CN CO COM CORP CR CU CV CY CZ DE DJ DK DM DO DOT DZ EARTH EC EDU EE EG ER ES ET EUR EXP FAM FCN FI FJ FM FO FR FREE GAY GB GD GE GES GF GG GH GI GL GN GOV GP GR GT GU GW GY HIGGS HK HN HR HU ID IE IL IM IN INC INT IR IS IT JE JM JO JP JPN K12 KE KH KI KN KR KW KY KZ LA LAW LB LC LI LK LNX LS LT LTD LU LV MA MAIL MALL MC MD MED METRO MEX MG MH MIL MK ML MM MN MO MP MR MT MU MV MW MX MY MZ NA NC NE NET NEWS NF NG NI NIC NL NO NP NPO NUM NZ OM ORG PA PE PER PF PG PH PHONE PK PL PR PRO PT PY QA RO RU RW SA SB SE SEA SG SHOP SI SK SM SN SR SU SV SY SZ TC TG TH TN TO TOUR TR TT TV TW TZ UA UG UK US USA USVI UY UZ VA VC VE VI VN VU WEB WS WTV XXX YE YU Z ZA ZM ZONE ZOO ZR ZW @@@@@ A report on the health of the eDNS Root Name Servers with respect to the InterNIC Root Name Servers will be forthcoming. The above TLDs will be the ones included in the report.

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252 Active TLDs
by Jim Fleming 26 Mar '97

26 Mar '97

According to our latest study, there are 252 active Top Level Domains with Name Servers, etc. @@@@@ As of 6:00 PM CST March 26, 1997 800 AD AE AG AGN AI AL AM AN AO AQ AR ARPA ART ARTS AT AU AUDIO AUTO AW AZ BA BB BE BF BG BH BI BIZ BJ BM BN BO BR BS BW BY BZ CA CF CG CH CI CITY CK CL CM CN CO COM CORP CR CU CV CY CZ DE DJ DK DM DO DOT DZ EARTH EC EDU EE EG ER ES ET EUR EXP FAM FCN FI FJ FM FO FR FREE GAY GB GD GE GES GF GG GH GI GL GN GOV GP GR GT GU GW GY HIGGS HK HN HR HU ID IE IL IM IN INC INT IR IS IT JE JM JO JP JPN K12 KE KH KI KN KR KW KY KZ LA LAW LB LC LI LK LNX LS LT LTD LU LV MA MAIL MALL MC MD MED METRO MEX MG MH MIL MK ML MM MN MO MP MR MT MU MV MW MX MY MZ NA NC NE NET NEWS NF NG NI NIC NL NO NP NPO NUM NZ OM ORG PA PE PER PF PG PH PHONE PK PL PR PRO PT PY QA RO RU RW SA SB SE SEA SG SHOP SI SK SM SN SR SU SV SY SZ TC TG TH TN TO TOUR TR TT TV TW TZ UA UG UK US USA USVI UY UZ VA VC VE VI VN VU WEB WS WTV XXX YE YU Z ZA ZM ZONE ZOO ZR ZW @@@@@ A report on the health of the eDNS Root Name Servers with respect to the InterNIC Root Name Servers will be forthcoming. The above TLDs will be the ones included in the report.

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NSI is not the InterNIC
by Jim Fleming 26 Mar '97

26 Mar '97

To help confirm that the InterNIC and NSI are not the same and that a new management team is running NSI... November 1, 1996...[1] "Gabe Battista officially became the new CEO for NSI" November 12, 1996...[2] According to the IAHC, Dr. Don Telage is the President of NSI and "Network Solutions will participate and support this effort enthusiastically"...is that what happened...? January 1997...[3] According to ARIN, "Donald N. Telage, Ph.D, President and Chief Operating Officer at Network Solutions Inc.... has become active in the governance community of the Internet.."...where ? February 1997...[4] According to the redesigned NSI web site..http://www.netsol.com "Don Telage, Senior VP Internet Relations and Special Projects" is one of the contact people, other InterNIC people are not mentioned. March 11, 1997... "Network Solutions and Leading ISPs Launch Premier Domain Registration Service Program" INTERNET WORLD, LOS ANGELES "CompuServe, DIGEX, Earthlink, iServer, MCI, MindSpring, Netcom Interactive, Rapidsite, SuperNet, Inc. and TIAC have all signed agreements with Network Solutions" March 24, 1997...[5] According to Kim Hubbard of the InterNIC (kimh(a)internic.net) "As for the status of ARIN, there are still a few issues that will need to be resolved before we can proceed. These are political/ financial issues between NSF and NSI." ==================================================== [1] @@@@ http://www.netsol.com "Network Solutions, Inc. and the InterNIC will be moving forward under both old and new leadership. On November 1, 1996 Gabe Battista officially became the new CEO for NSI. Formerly president and chief executive officer at Cable and Wireless, Inc., Battista brings years of experience and leadership in the networking technology field to the top position at NSI. Don Telage continues in the position of chief operating officer, and Michael A. Daniels continues to serve as chairman of the board for NSI." @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ [2] @@@ http://www.iahc.org/iahcmembers.html WASHINGTON, DC, November 12, 1996... "Dr. Donald N. Telage, president of the Herndon, Virginia - based Network Solutions, Inc., which manages the InterNIC Registry administering the .com, .net, .edu, and .org top level domains, said: "Network Solutions has supported the registration process and the growth of the Internet since 1991. We have seen its evolution from a research and education tool to a powerful medium for global communication and collaboration. The National Science Foundation has played a critical role in the early governance activities, and we support the Internet Society's efforts to review issues critical to the future of Internet growth, evolution and governance. Network Solutions will participate and support this effort enthusiastically supplying our extensive operational knowledge as needed." @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ [3] @@@@ http://www.arin.net/arin_board.html "Proposed Board Of Trustees" "Donald N. Telage, Ph.D, President and Chief Operating Officer at Network Solutions Inc.since January 1995 following its acquisition by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). He has grown NSI into a key Internet company and the world technology leader in Internet Registration services. His prior experience with SAIC, from 1986 to 1995, involved a progression in executive management culminating with the position of Senior Vice President managing the Telecommunications Technology Operating Group, which he started. While at GTE from 1980 to 1985, he held a variety of systems engineering positions, both technical and management, involving data communications systems design. Prior to 1980, Dr. Telage was a faculty member in mathematics and computer science at several universities, and conducted parallel research programs. He has become active in the governance community of the Internet, and he is a frequent speaker on matters of governance and administration of Internet infrastructure." @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ [4] @@@ http://www.netsol.com Gabriel A. Battista, CEO Robert Korzeniewski , CFO Don Telage, Senior VP Internet Relations and Special Projects David Holtzman, Senior VP of Engineering Chris Clough, Director of Communications Chuck Gomes, Director of Customer Programs [5] @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ---------- From: Kim Hubbard[SMTP:kimh@INTERNIC.NET] Sent: Monday, March 24, 1997 8:09 AM To: Michael Dillon Cc: naipr(a)arin.net Subject: Re: AS Numbers, website, timing... > > > Could we have RFC 1930 regarding AS numbers added to the Recommended > Reading section at ARIN's website as well as a link added for the > March archive of the discussion list? Perhaps an April link should be > added as well since the list-server software automatically rolls over the > archive each month. > > Also, is the BoT close enough to a budget and/or next draft proposal that > someone would be willing to give out a guesstimate of when these will > be available for perusal? > > Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting > Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 > http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael(a)memra.com > Okay, I'll take care of adding the RFC and the links. As for the status of ARIN, there are still a few issues that will need to be resolved before we can proceed. These are political/ financial issues between NSF and NSI. I know we projected an April operational date, obviously we will not be making that. Please be patient with us, while these details are worked out. We need to make sure everything is done right, even if it takes longer than planned. Thanks, Kim @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ -- Jim Fleming Unir Corporation http://www.Unir.Corp Check out...http://Register.A.Mall

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ATTENDEE LIST FOR JUNE MEETING
by Pam Ciesla 26 Mar '97

26 Mar '97

AN ATTENDEE LIST IS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE WEB PAGE FOR THE JUNE MEETING IN TAMPA. IF YOU ARE NOT ON THE LIST AND SHOULD BE PLEASE LET ME KNOW. THANKS Pam Ciesla

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RE: Reserved Network Numbers
by James R. Saker Jr. 25 Mar '97

25 Mar '97

Geoff White [SMTP:geoffw@precipice.v-site.net] writes: Now for a brief excursion into the totally mundane. Can anyone point me to the internet-draft/RFC that specifies the "reserverd networks" (i.e. the class A,B, & C [sic] network numbers that are considered "safe" (no-one should be routing them) to use as test/intranet/private IP networks? I believe you're looking for RFC 1918. Here's the header; document available at: http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1918.txt ---document header--- Network Working Group Y. Rekhter Request for Comments: 1918 Cisco Systems Obsoletes: 1627, 1597 B. Moskowitz BCP: 5 Chrysler Corp. Category: Best Current Practice D. Karrenberg RIPE NCC G. J. de Groot RIPE NCC E. Lear Silicon Graphics, Inc. February 1996 Address Allocation for Private Internets Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. 1. Introduction For the purposes of this document, an enterprise is an entity autonomously operating a network using TCP/IP and in particular determining the addressing plan and address assignments within that network. This document describes address allocation for private internets. The allocation permits full network layer connectivity among all hosts inside an enterprise as well as among all public hosts of different enterprises. The cost of using private internet address space is the potentially costly effort to renumber hosts and networks between public and private. James R. Saker Jr. James_Saker(a)Intellitek.com President http://Intellitek.com Network Media Division voice: 402.333.6233 Intellitek Corporation fax: 402.333.6432

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Reserved Network Numbers
by Geoff White 25 Mar '97

25 Mar '97

Now for a brief excursion into the totally mundane. Can anyone point me to the internet-draft/RFC that specifies the "reserverd networks" (i.e. the class A,B, & C [sic] network numbers that are considered "safe" (no-one should be routing them) to use as test/intranet/private IP networks? I need to know all of the numbers, i.e. I believe 10.0.0.0 is the class A component of the list. Thanks in advance. Geoff White Virtual Sites

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