IP: "all domain owners are in business" (fwd)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:14:05 -0500 (EST)
> From: elijah wright <elw () stderr org>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: "all domain owners are in business" (fwd)
>
>
> > >--  ALL DOMAIN NAME OWNERS ARE IN BUSINESS
>
> so if i buy a domain name (i own several) i'm obligated (as an education
> professional) to play by the author's rules of moral and professional
> conduct?
>
> i don't think so.
>
> if i buy a little red wagon full of reese's peanut butter cups, am i
> obligated to eat them someone else's way?  NO.  and i don't think many
> people would argue that i should be.
>
> > >--  Educators who are referred to as  "PROFESSIONALS' and who have "BOUGHT
> > >A DOMAIN NAME" have "GONE INTO BUSINESS".
>
> so making a legitimate purchase of a piece of property makes me a
> businessperson?  i think i'll try to remember that the next time i go to
> wal-mart and buy tires.  "gee look, i'm in business!"
>
> clearly, this letter had good intentions.  unfortunately, it went a little
> overboard in trying to make dramatic statements and be persuasive.
>
>
> > >--  The perception by educators is that if they don't sell anything on
> > >their site they are not in the marketplace,
> > >and feel they have no responsibility to understand the commercial
> > >connections to domain name ownership.
>
> i'm in the intellectual marketplace.  this fact, however, does not
> obligate me to pay special attention to "commerce" that i ordinarily
> wouldn't.
>
> there's one thing worth thinking about - there's no reason for "dead
> dots".  transfer your domains to one of the cheapie hosting services
> (dotster comes to mind) and for a hundred bucks or so you can register for
> a decade of service.
>
> > >-- "Educators" who own domains and decide to let them die have a
> > >responsibility to bury their dead dots with dignity.
>
> this would have been more effectively stated if it had been generalized to
> "domain owners" rather than trying to pin down educators specifically.
>
> as a class of individuals, technically literate educational professionals
> are probably more likely to think through consequences than many other
> groups.
>
> > > They must not let their domain name land into porn hands where it
> > > will be seen in public spaces like the classroom or even the library
> > > by a well
>
> classroom teachers and librarians have a responsibility to educate their
> students and patrons, as well.  this includes teaching students that there
> are things on the internet that they should probably not be looking at. :)
>
> > >-- The CEO of McGuffy should be sued for letting the domain name become
> > >porn. I think it pure negligence to have let the site get into that
>
> funny thing - i can get neither the mcguffy.org site or the site
> supposedly owned by this woman to load.
>
> > >followed, probably at least $1.25 million. And their site is now a porn
> > >site!!  Who were the Education  CXO's responsible for his? And who is
> > >going to hold them accountable for the tax payer money they were given and
> > >squandered?
>
> since when do educational groups have CIO/CEO/CFO positions?  the mixing
> of educational and business terminology is perplexing.  i'm starting to
> wonder what this author's real intentions are.
>
> > >-- Professional Educators hold students to state standards when delivering
> > >curriculum but when educators  go on the net they will be held to real
> > >world standards.
>
> errrr, there *are* real standards for educational professionals, but this
> individual doesn't seem to be aware of them.  =)
>
> AAUP, NEA, and NCTE come to mind immediately as standard-setting bodies.
> Oh yeah, the American Library Association as well.
>
> > >-- I would recommend the government demand Network Solutions and Verizen
> > >provide a quarantine bin for dead education domain names at no cost for a
> > >period of time to be protected from the purchase of porn sites.
>
> i'm sure Verizon would take this more seriously if their corporate marks
> weren't being warped :)
>
> elijah


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