[LINK] ICANN row continues

[stewart carter]

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Stephen ( and Linkers),

(provocateur button switched on :-)

Isn't this yet another tawdry parasitical effort to build a commercial 
business on the back of the DNS?.

I suppose that if the Internet and its DNS is a marketplace rather than 
something that the Internet user community owns and manages, via ICANN, 
then it doesn't matter what entrepreneurs do.

BTW Stephen, my browser/ ISP doesn't appear to recognise the country-code 
'ws' at the end of the URL in your sig. Does this mean that you, too, have 
bought one of these renegade/parasitical pseudo domain names.

Cheers




another At 01:07 AM 3/16/01, you wrote:
>Hello all ..
>
>At 09:55 AM 15/03/2001 +1100, Tony quoted:
>
> > ICANN ROW CONTINUES: Source: THE NET NEWS
> > The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
> > has ended its meeting in Melbourne by promising to decide in
> > three weeks on the future of the .com, .net and .org domains.
>
>The following may soon be yet another issue for ICANN, though
>the plug-in they mention doesn't work with proxy-server access.
>
>--
>Potential ICANN Rival Bursts Onto Net Domain Name Scene
>
>By Margret Johnston
>Publication Date: 03/12/01 (Vol. 23, Issue 11)
>Copyright (c) 2001 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.
>
><<http://gethelp.devx.com/pubs/infoworld/vol23/issue11/010312hnnewnet.asp>h
>ttp://gethelp.devx.com/pubs/infoworld/vol23/issue11/010312hnnewnet.asp>
>
>IN A DIRECT challenge to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
>Numbers (ICANN), a new domain name registry last week began selling an
>additional 20 TLDs (top-level domains), including.kids, .travel, and.xxx, for
>$25 per year.
>
>New.net's TLDs are more logical and easier to remember than the existing TLDs
>and more varied than the seven additional TLDs that ICANN announced late last
>year, according to David Hernand, CEO of the Pasadena, Calif.-based registry.
>
>"We are a market-based solution to the naming system in contrast with a
>politically based solution, which has moved slowly," Hernand said. "The first
>seven [TLDs] were released over 10 years ago ... by great visionary minds who
>simply did not envision how popular the Internet would become. We hope to move
>quickly into this space to provide consumers the names they want now."
>
>At the same time, Hernand said New.net does not view itself as conflicting 
>with
>ICANN, calling it instead a "supplement to what ICANN has done thus far."
>
>In addition to.kids, .travel, and.xxx, New.net is selling names ending 
>in.shop,
>.mp3, .inc, .sport, .family, .chat, .video, .club, .hola, .soc, .med, .law,
>.game, .free, .ltd, .gmbh, and.tech. New.net is using the same uniform
>dispute-resolution policy that ICANN uses for protecting trademarks and for
>resolving disputes regarding ownership of names, Hernand said.
>
>But some of the TLDs in New.net's list, particularly.travel, could put New.net
>on a collision course with ICANN because they are among those that ICANN wants
>to consider the next time it selects new TLDs. ICANN selected.aero, .biz,
>.coop, .info, .museum, .name, and .pro as new generic TLDs in November but
>rejected .travel and several others for various reasons.
>
>ICANN had no comment on New.net's announcement, said Brett LaGrande, a
>spokesman for the organization.
>
>The TLDs work within the existing DNS infrastructure using a method 
>New.net set
>up with UltraDNS, a San Mateo, Calif.-based company that provides outsourced
>DNS services, Hernand said.
>
>New.net's 20 TLDs are available for purchase at
><<http://www.new.net/>http://www.new.net> and are being sold on a first-come,
>first-served basis, Hernand said. New.net has reached an agreement with
>Earthlink, Excite@Home, and NetZero to ensure that the 16 million customers of
>those ISPs can reach the new TLDs...
>
>Internet users who are not customers of the three ISPs have to download a
>plug-in from New.net's site to their browser to access the new TLDs.
>
>Although New.net said it wants to stay clear of ICANN, Chadima admitted the
>company is taking a calculated risk on what will happen if ICANN in the future
>decides to create TLDs that are identical to those New.net supports.
>
>"If we get a vast majority of ISPs to turn on our TLDs, I think ICANN would be
>very hard-pressed to say they were just going to release [their own TLDs] on
>top of them," Chadima said. "It would seem silly to take that confrontational
>approach."
>--
>
>Cheers all ..
>Stephen Loosley
><<http://www.stephen.ws/>http://www.stephen.ws>

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