Re: Read this...Re: offtopic for NANOG - do not read
At 04:31 PM 04/26/97 -0400, Vince Wolodkin wrote:
The only thing NSI has truly done that is awful is their TM dispute policy, and the IAHC has taken that very thing under its own wing.
Unfortunately for the Internet community, NSI has made it clear that it doesn't plan to yield any control over .COM to anyone else, ever: Networks Solutions seemed more definite. "It is not our intention to share .com or the others [domains] we register," Network Solutions spokesman Christopher Clough said. "Those would obviously [be] assets that we've developed . . . much as Microsoft wouldn't share DOS," its proprietary software. Network Solutions favors competition, but only in the registration of new types of domains, Clough said. (Network Solutions Dropped as Registrar Of Internet Domains, By David S. Hilzenrath, April 24 1997; The Washington Post.) Thus, it seems likely that (barring a shift in control over .COM) NSI would continue forever, carrying out its awful policy and putting innocent domain name owners out of business. The only way that innocent domain name owners will have the cloud of NSI's awful domain name policy lifted from their heads is if indeed the control over .COM shifts elsewhere. So far as I can see, the most likely way for that to happen is if IAHC's plans move forward and are put into place.
On Sat, Apr 26, 1997 at 01:54:04PM -0400, Carl Oppedahl wrote:
At 04:31 PM 04/26/97 -0400, Vince Wolodkin wrote:
The only thing NSI has truly done that is awful is their TM dispute policy, and the IAHC has taken that very thing under its own wing.
Unfortunately for the Internet community, NSI has made it clear that it doesn't plan to yield any control over .COM to anyone else, ever:
Networks Solutions seemed more definite. "It is not our intention to share .com or the others [domains] we register," Network Solutions spokesman Christopher Clough said. "Those would obviously [be] assets that we've developed . . . much as Microsoft wouldn't share DOS," its proprietary software. Network Solutions favors competition, but only in the registration of new types of domains, Clough said.
(Network Solutions Dropped as Registrar Of Internet Domains, By David S. Hilzenrath, April 24 1997; The Washington Post.)
Thus, it seems likely that (barring a shift in control over .COM) NSI would continue forever, carrying out its awful policy and putting innocent domain name owners out of business.
The only way that innocent domain name owners will have the cloud of NSI's awful domain name policy lifted from their heads is if indeed the control over .COM shifts elsewhere. So far as I can see, the most likely way for that to happen is if IAHC's plans move forward and are put into place.
Total nonsense. The eDNS open market system solves this problem by allowing people to choose the dispute resolution system which matches their preference. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 99 Analog numbers, 77 ISDN, http://www.mcs.net/ Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| NOW Serving 56kbps DIGITAL on our analog lines! Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Carl Oppedahl wrote:
Unfortunately for the Internet community, NSI has made it clear that it doesn't plan to yield any control over .COM to anyone else, ever:
That's just the current management of NSI. They can be replaced. Once the shareholders of NSI realize that there is more hay to be made by cooperating with the IAHC and by getting back to Network Solutions' roots, then this whole tempest in a teapot will evaporate. Many people don't realize that NSI used to do a lot of consulting, network integration, etc. And it seems that the shortsighted management at NSI doesn't see that the IAHC is actually creating a market for both the services and the software expertise that NSI has in regards to domain name registries. If they don't wake up quickly and stop this silly political grandstanding, the new registry companies will simply hire away all their expert employees and NSI will have nothing left. This is a technology industry and when you lose your key employees to a competitor, you have problems. Political grandstanding, and PR spin-doctoring does nothing to help retain skilled people as many a technology company has learned in the past.
Thus, it seems likely that (barring a shift in control over .COM) NSI would continue forever, carrying out its awful policy and putting innocent domain name owners out of business.
Smart domain name owners will simply move out of .COM and use the occasion of their domain name change to generate lots of PR attention for themselves. Realistically though, NSI will be forced by competitive pressures to modify their policies and bring them into line with the rest of the commercial registries. The beauty of competition is that it affects not only pricing, but all aspects of a companies business. In the face of competition the only sane and viable strategy is to serve the customer and this includes a domain name dispute policy that puts the customer first. Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Michael Dillon wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Carl Oppedahl wrote:
Unfortunately for the Internet community, NSI has made it clear that it doesn't plan to yield any control over .COM to anyone else, ever:
That's just the current management of NSI. They can be replaced. Once the shareholders of NSI realize that there is more hay to be made by cooperating with the IAHC and by getting back to Network Solutions' roots, then this whole tempest in a teapot will evaporate.
I would have thought that if NSI applied to be a registrar and won the lottery, they would be a 900 pound gorilla compared to the 2-3 man operations currently gearing up to be registrars. If I was management I would see golden opportunities by having a bunch more gTLDs open up and operations ready to handle 100,000 applications in a week. Even if I lost - I could become an outsourcer for those that win - providing technical consulting and backoffice operations support. If I was a stock holder with SIAC I would be quite annoyed by now by their company losing out on a potential golden egg that they have a leg up on.
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
Hank Nussbacher IAHC member [the views expressed above belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the other IAHC members]
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