Re: [ga-roots] Alternate Roots Issues Paper for Discussion

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

Mr. Walsh,

You should have just agreed with Mr. James and then reached a seperate
conclusion.  Marketing people have been through this very thoroughly and Mr. James
hit the nail on the head.  I think you know that!

Sincerely,

"William X. Walsh" wrote:

> Saturday, May 26, 2001, 9:25:07 AM, Bruce James wrote:
> > With regards to the "problem" of new.net, I suggest a similar variant to
> > that above. In my view, the issue with new.net is not that they are creating
> > sub-domains that are similar to gTLDs. They should be free to do so, just as
> > ccTLDs should be free to do so. The problem is that it appears that new.net
> > is misrepresenting how these domains eg, www.your.biz.new.net, are going to
> > be able to be promoted eg. as www.your.biz and then working with ISPs
> > (anyone else?) to have them conspire with new.net to support this
> > misrepresentation by way of corrupting the unique resolution of truncated -
> > hence not unique - names.
>
> Just for the record, the above is misinformation.
>
> In fact, New.net's domains are in fact under TLD dns zones.  The
> www.yourname.tld.new.net is not in fact the primary way the name is
> handled.
>
> Grant implies that they are creating names only as
> yourname.tld.new.net and marketing it as second level domains, when in
> fact they are creating names as second level domains, and mirroring
> them as fourth level domains in order to provide an easier
> inter-operability with users who cannot modify their dns settings to
> use New.net's actual dns system.
>
> Registrants of new.net domain names are encouraged to setup dns zones
> not only for yourname.tld, but for yourname.tld.new.net also, in order
> to provide this type of inter-operability.  However, they are not
> required to do so in order for the yourname.tld to work for those who
> have setup their dns to properly resolve new.net domains.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh
> mailto:william@userfriendly.com
> Owner, Userfriendly.com
> Userfriendly.com Domains
> The most advanced domain lookup tool on the net
>
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