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

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

No I think I have to retract, no Walsh does, no James does. Dang this one is out
of whack.  Ok let me try this; Mr. James just posted the "Study" by doing so I
thought he was pointing out the entire misinformation scenario. But I made an
erroneous assumption. But it was caused by using the "so and so wrote" leader.
I hope that clarifies the situation;>}

NameCritic wrote:

> Youn mean I have to retract now? The part that said it was misinformation is
> what I agreed with. I thought Walsh said that, but now it seems I was
> mistaken and again can't find one single place I can agree with anything WXW
> says. I am saddened to no end that he would slander a company in this
> fashion and I have to once again disagree. Say the sky is blus or something
> WXW so that we might at least agree on something.
>
> Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Dierker" <eric@hi-tek.com>
> To: "William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>
> Cc: "Bruce James" <bmj@keyname.net>; "Roots" <ga-roots@dnso.org>;
> <grant.forsyth@clear.co.nz>
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [ga-roots] Alternate Roots Issues Paper for Discussion
>
> > 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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