[ga-roots] Dot-Antitrust anyone? fresh evidence

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Len and all,

  Thanks for passing this along.

  It is obvious that Stuart Lynn is either unaware or just not savvy
enough to
recognize that some large ISP's such as @home and Earthlink/Mindspring
(My account service provider) do not require the New.Net Plugin to
access
their sites.  That's a huge number of stakeholders.  Recently also
New.Net
also partnered up with Prodigy which will bring a potential +10m
users/stakeholders
access to the much needed and increasingly desired TLD's and associated
Domain Names.

  Maybe someday the ICANN BoD and staff, most especially Stuart Lynn
will come to their senses....  Hope springs eternal...

Len Lindon wrote:

> Getting Out of Dot-Nowhere
> By Joanna Glasner
> 2:00 a.m. June 20, 2001
> http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,44625,00.html
>
> > For folks who actually have Web addresses in alternative domains, a more
> > pressing concern is not whether the sites will continue operating so much as
> > whether anyone will visit them.
> >
> > Since sites operated by alternate registries aren't on the Internet's central
> > server, they're typically hard to access. More often than not, users trying to
> > get to dot-shop or dot-travel end up receiving "server not responding"
> > messages.
> >
> > Given those technical hurdles, low traffic figures weren't much of a surprise
> ...
> > Largely through these efforts, New.net figures that its sites are accessible
> > by about 35 percent of U.S. Internet users through at least one computer they
> > operate.
> >
> > However, that still leaves out about two-thirds of the Web-using public. The
> > two largest Internet service providers, AOL and MSN, for example, have yet to
> > sign on to New.net's plan. On top of that, there are the countless individuals
> > who get Internet access at work or school without a commercial ISP.
>
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Regards,

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