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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: NSI SAYS FCC SHOULD ASSUME INTERNET REGISTRATION FUNCTIONS
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Jordan Mendelson wrote: [once again, for all those people who want to stop reading about iahc, nsi, internic, iana, or anything that deals with alternate registrations, hit 'd' now] > It took THIS long to get InterNIC to where they are today, and now we want > to shove in 28 new ones? And each one of these 28 new ones is going to try > and add domains to each of the 7 new tlds? We are going to start seeing > legal hassles like nothing else. "I sent in my registration for my.firm at > 3:32 PST to yyy registrations. Well, I sent mine in at 7:15 EST for it to > zzz registrations, but they processed mine first, so I get it". > > Personally, I think that the new TLD's are good, though I would personally > cut out ones such as .nom because that is just going to cause legal > problems about who owns smith.nom, etc, but I don't think new registrars > should be added. InterNIC should be it, one company providing this sort of > thing is a hell of a lot more powerful than 20 little ones. The same could be said when AT&T was one company. We are not discussing breaking up NSI but rather adding competition - in the same way MCI and Sprint have added alternatives for people in North America. Yes, all 28 will not survive. But even if 3-4 others do come out and provide users with registration options other than NSI, we will have done our job. I live in a country with a monopoly Telco. If I do not like their service or their options, I have no where to turn. There is no ATM locally and the cost of a T1 line to the USA is $1m/yr. Competition provides alternatives as well as lower costs. > -- > Jordan Mendelson : www.wserv.com/~jordy/ > Web Services, Inc. : www.wserv.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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