Re: [ga] Press Release Warns Internet Users about ICANN

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

John and all,

  Thank you for providing this useful and helpful information for
the true education of the stakeholders.

John Palmer wrote:

> ON THE EVE OF YOKOHAMA - A RADIO AD CAMPAIGN WARNING INTERNET
> USERS ABOUT THE DAMAGE THAT ICANN WILL DO IF IT STAYS ON ITS
> PRESENT COURSE
>
> CHICAGO, July 5, 2000 /BusinessWire/
>
> AGN Domain Name Service, Inc (ADNS - http://www.adns.net) today
> announce
> that it will be launching a radio ad campaign to educate users about
> ICANN and the changes that may be coming to the internet as a result
> of
> ICANN's policies.
>
> ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
> Numbers - the
> organization that is attempting to make policy on the future of the
> internet.
> ICANN is holding a conference in Yokohama, Japan on July 13 - 17 and
> may vote
> on new domain policy at that time.
>
> John Palmer,  president and CEO of ADNS warns all internet users to
> watch the
> developments carefully. "Changes are coming to the internet and they
> aren't
> all good", Palmer said. "Special interests have hijacked the process
> and are
> influencing policy in a way that will be bad for internet users and
> especially
> domain holders". Palmer cites the heavy influence of the World
> Intellectual
> Property Organization (WIPO) as an example. "WIPO wants registrars to
> be burdened
> with the task of trademark policemen - a task that belongs in the
> courts, not
> on the backs of registrars, many of the small businesses with limited
> resources".
>
> Another seemingly contradictory stand that ICANN is taking is their
> refusal to
> recognize the intellectual property rights of Top-Level Domain (TLD)
> owners.
> "ICANN seems to be interested in the protection of intellectual
> property, but
> refuses to recognize the ownership of  TLDs by those who claimed them
> via the
> legitimate service mark process, such as ADNS did with EARTH, USA and
> Z.",
> Palmer said. He says that the biggest threat to domain name holders
> however,
> is that the ICANN process would attempt to have domain holders sign
> away their
> rights to use the courts to resolve disputes regarding domain
> ownership.
>
> Palmer is not opposed to the concept of ICANN. "The concept of an
> organization
> permanently assigned to govern the few aspects of the internet that
> require
> oversight is a good one, however this particular process has gone
> horribly wrong
> and permanent damage to the Internet will occur if it is not stopped
> and fixed".
>
> The radio ad campaign which will air continuously on several
> nationally syndicated
> shows will begin later this week and will run for about 10 days. It
> will inform
> users about ICANN and will point them to a website that contains more
> detailed
> information. One of the solutions suggested is for ISPs and internet
> users to
> point their machines away from the root servers operated by ICANN and
> to
> alternative providers who are not under ICANN's control. Instructions
> for doing
> this are available at various websites, including that of ADNS.
>
> Palmer also announced today that ADNS's  root nameserver, ASLAN, a
> member
> of the Open Root Server Consortium, received 763,311 hits in June - an
>
> increase of over 40% over May.
>
> "Registrations of domains ending in EARTH, USA and Z are also up to
> several
> thousand domain names. We have really seen a growth in  registrations
> in the
> past month due to our educational campaign", said Palmer. "What's more
> important
> is that people are switching to other root server networks in large
> numbers,
> showing that they do take notice and are concerned about ICANN".
>
> ADNS owns the three top-level domains "EARTH", "USA" and "Z" and
> provides internet
> sites with the ability to register a domain under these top-level
> domains. ADNS
> has been providing internet related services since 1993.
>
> Each month, ADNS will offer free registration, web hosting service and
> domain
> service for those registering a domain in a specific part of the
> EARTH, USA or
> Z hierarchy, provided that they promise to develop public content
> under that domain name.
> This month, anyone who registers a domain which ends in
> MISSISSIPPI.USA on July 10th
> between 4am and 5 am Eastern Time will receive free registration, DNS
> and web hosting
> services for one year.
>
> ADNS is part of the Open Root Server Consortium (ORSC -
> http://www.open-rsc.org ),
> a group of individuals and organizations who are all interested in an
> open, fair
> and technically sound global Domain Name System for the internet. ADNS
> is providing
> ASLAN free of charge for the use of the internet community.
>
> ADNS  also operates the  internet portal site called http://The.EARTH.
>
> This site is accessible to any computer that is pointing to the new
> DNS servers.
>
> SOURCE: AGN Domain Name Service, Inc.
>
> CONTACT: John Palmer, jp@adns.net /  312-849-2753
>
>

Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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