Re: [ga] Text of Radio Ad which will start running nationwide

["!Dr. Joe Baptista" <baptista@pccf.net>]

I think your announcement John caused a bit of a stir.  The radio ads are
going to cause ICANN no end of headaches - we all know that.

Joe Baptista

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On Thu, 29 Jun 100, John Palmer wrote:

> > 
> > John and all remaining DNSO Assembly members,
> > 
> >   John, you must try to understand or remember that Harald along
> > with a few others refuse to see the forest for the trees, or purposefully
> > remain ignorant and than deny reality.  His comments to which you
> > nicely responded to here, are stark evidence of this...  Indeed unfortunate.
> > 
> > John Palmer wrote:
> > 
> 
> I find that there are two kinds of behavior from people who disagree. Some
> try to call you names and others try to psych you out of continuing to try
> because they are afraid you might succeed. I think that Harald fell 
> into this last category with his remarks about "silly waste of money". 
> 
> I will not be deterred by him or anyone else. 
> 
> Yes, it is indeed unfortunate. I expect the next thing to happen is that
> my posting privileges to this list will mysteriously disappear just like 
> they did for several other people whose opinions differed from the ICANN
> politburo. 
> 
> We shall see....
> John
> 
> > > >
> > > > At 22:37 28.06.2000 -0400, Yingwei Wang wrote:
> > > > >Voting rules are important, we should talk about them, but we should talk
> > > > >about domain names, too. Did anyone suggest a proposal about domain names?
> > > >
> > > > the reason to have voting rules is to be able to say something in an
> > > > organized fashion about domain names. This is the *DNSO* GA, after all.
> > > >
> > > > >Can anyone tell me why you think ADNS will not succeed?
> > > >
> > > > My take on ADNS, and any other current "alternative" root, is that it will
> > > > not succeed because nobody in his right mind will use a domain registered
> > > > solely with them in the target address of anything that they hope to make
> > > > money from; the customer base from any current .Z website is only the
> > > > minuscule fraction of the Internet users that have retargeted their
> > > > nameservers.
> > > >
> > > > Cutting off 99.5% of your target audience is not something very many
> > > > business people are particularly fond of.
> > > >
> > > > That's why so many people who dislike ICANN so intensely haven't left the
> > > > party yet - it's the organization controlling the *present* set of root
> > > > nameservers.
> > > >
> > > >                           Harald A
> > > >
> > >
> > > Many people are NOT just naming their sites something.{USA,EARTH,Z} but
> > > are using these as ALTERNATIVE names for the same website. They realize
> > > that if they don't lock in their chosen EARTH, USA or Z name, that the same
> > > thing might happen to it that happened to their .COM version - it may
> > > end up taken by someone else.
> > >
> > > We are succeeding. Visibility of EARTH, USA and Z has grown by a factor of
> > > almost 10 in the last year. USA domains have appeared on domain auction
> > > sites and have been sold for substantial amounts of money. There are many
> > > sites with .USA names (that also have .COM names, but so what?)
> > >
> > > For the time being, most of the registration fees that we get is used to
> > > run ad campaigns which educate people about ICANN and alternative domain
> > > root networks.
> > >
> > > John
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> > 
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