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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