Re: [ga] Re: VeriSign/RealNames - XTNS

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Dear Paul,
Tim was most probably used as a test.  Technically and marketingly. By 
purpose or by mistake. Anyway they know what they wanted. And they may 
offer the "." "bug" some times at "NSI user community" consensual demand. 
The real tectical important point is to know is which character set is 
supported already.

http://icann:org works the same and the slogan "get more with double dot" 
is not bad.
http://icann/org "slash competition with the slash company" is not bad either
http://icann=org as is "be more equal than others with the equal scheme"...
http://icann+org "get plus with the plus maker"
http://icann*org "shine with the star"
http://stuart-icann-org is a good and clear possibility
http://icann however stays the best....it is now NSI under Microsoft and 
Inclusive roots under the DNS.

Jefsey

On 13:50 12/10/01, Paul Cotton said:
>Tim,
>
>"I don't understand your message. The reason I didn't mention XTNS in my
>response is because Danny's message didn't reference XTNS at all. His
>comments were solely restricted to VeriSign and Realnames Keywords
>products."
>
>This related to Jefsey's question: "Question to XTNS: you said you were
>exclusive? Are you with
>them on this?"
>
>"As to you other points, I am totally mystified. We have not "made plenty of
>noise about offering dotted keywords" -- in fact we have never once said
>that we offer "dotted keywords" (not the least because we do not). The
>namespaces we do offer are still on sale on our site and have not been
>removed. Indeed they were recently enhanced by the launch of our fully
>multilingual namespaces in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew and Arabic. I
>am thus entirely at a loss to understand any part of your message."
>
>Either you have amnesia or selective memory, because you were originally
>offering "namespaces"  (which you also called "domains" and "domain names"
>on your site) using prefixes of www. sex. store. and corp. - this was the
>main push at your site.  These were dotted realnames keywords, that was
>exactly how your technology was supposed to work but microsoft prevented you
>from doing this even though you said you were working with microsoft when
>questioned on this via your message board.
>
>In addition, your site made numerous fraudulent statements, such as :
>
>"XTNS DOMAINS CAN BE VIEWED BY OVER 360,000,000 INTERNET USERS WORLDWIDE!"
>
>and
>
>"XTNS Domains are accessible by over 87% of Internet users worldwide! "
>
>and
>
>"Anyone can view XTNS Domains as long as they are using the Microsoft
>Internet Explorer browser (version 5.0 or higher). which over 87% users
>worldwide do."
>
>along with :
>
>"Hot suggestions:
>www.store.toycity
>mens.store.shoes
>www.corp.lapizza
>www.playground"
>
>The above are all taken from a cached copy of your front page. Now isn't
>this at odds with "The namespaces we do offer are still on sale on our site
>and have not been removed." and also this article:
>
>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7309540.html
>
>"RealNames Chief Executive Keith Teare confirmed the problem, saying it
>stems from the recent IE upgrade. But he doesn't expect any changes to the
>browser's autosearch.
>
>"XTNS namespaces that have a period...have ceased to function," he said. "We
>don't think this status will change; it will remain this way for the
>foreseeable future."
>
>and
>
>"Hundreds of companies have registered such addresses under XTNS' service
>with RealNames, which went into effect Aug. 15, Langdell said. The Pasadena,
>Calif.-based company says it was forced to suspend service to about 300
>customers because of the new IE feature."
>
>How on earth can you make the statement that these were not dotted keywords
>when they relied on the realnames keyword resolver to work?
>
>You simply removed all mention of these prefixed "namespaces" from your site
>and have since acted as though they never existed.  You have a novel concept
>of "enhancing" a service range.
>
>Is any of this jogging your memory Tim?
>
>regards
>
>Paul Cotton
>
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