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

["Marsh, Miles (Gene)" <MarshM@diebold.com>]

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Rick,

Inflamatory and inaccurate statements will get you nowhere.  Any one
of us would be more than happy to assist you in resolving to
alternative roots.

Gene Marsh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick H Wesson [mailto:wessorh@ar.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:43 AM
> To: John Palmer
> Cc: ga@dnso.org; admin@open-rsc.org
> Subject: Re: [ga] Press Release Warns Internet Users about ICANN
> 
> 
> 
> John,
> 
> I would like daily access to the zone files for the TLDs you are
> laing claim to.
> 
> please let me know how to get them. this is the 3rd time I 
> have asked OSRC
> folks how to get thier zones. at least NSI provides a method 
> that anyone
> can get them.
> 
> so, are you open or does the "O" in ORSC stand for obfuscatory.
> 
> -rick
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, 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
> 

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