IP: Re: Time to renew farber.net

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:48:29 -0800
> From: Ed Gerck <egerck () safevote com>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu, Gordon Cook <cook () cookreport com>,
>    Einar Stefferud <stef () nma com>, egerck () nma com
> Subject: Re: IP: Time to renew farber.net
>
> David:
>
> Let me just remind you that this is the result of ICANN and its contracts 
> with NSI.
> NSI has to right to cancel the contract with ICANN if ICANN does anything to
> hurt NSI's market position, without recourse by the USG.  Thus, we have 
> the mockery
> of competition hidding self-serving interests in controlling the root and 
> setting
> policies.
>
> It is my understanding that this was the only policy left for the USG, as 
> explained
> in the Cook Report of April, 2000. But such is so only because of lack of a
> technical solution to  domain names in a commercial environment. The DNS was
> only a limited solution to a limited Net, that has far outlived its use cycle.
>
> Your comment below thus, IMO, reflects what we have been saying in terms
> of this whole DNS mess. That it will eventually backfire, we may just have to
> let time itself show it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ed Gerck
>
> David Farber wrote:
>
> > I was tempted to use Network Solutions for the ease of it all and then ran
> > into the  usual complete ineptness of that organization., Their web renewal
> > site just does not work. It says there is an error in the information I
> > submitted but gives no hint  and in fact asks me to correct a read only 
> page.
> > What are the organizations that know what they are doing as opposed to how
> > to just make a lot of money. I will forward my experiences to those of IP
> > who are faced with the same mess.
> >
> > Dave
> >
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