Re[2]: [ga-roots] Alternate Roots Issues Paper for Discussion

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Eric,


Please pay better attention, Eric.

Mr James didn't write this, Mr Forsyth did.

And while I agree with much of what Mr Forsyth wrote, I do not agree
with it all, and since Mr Forsyth is not on the list to respond to
those issues, I didn't feel a need to point each one of them out.



Saturday, May 26, 2001, 1:36:03 PM, Eric Dierker wrote:

> 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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Best regards,
William X Walsh
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Owner, Userfriendly.com
Userfriendly.com Domains
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