RE: [ga] collisions in namespace (was gTLD Constituency)

[PacificRoot Hostmaster <idno@tallship.net>]

Hi Jeff :)

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jeff Field wrote:

> I checked out the site.  It appears that although vitamins.biz does indeed
> get you to a site, the company is actually doing business under the name,
> "bodyRight.com".  Further, if you use the bodyright.com domain name, you end
> up at a site that looks identical to the vitamins.biz site.
> 
> IMHO, I would say this company has attempted to hedge or extend its
> e-commerce bet by registering the vitamins.biz name in the hopes that, 1)
> the alternative root .biz would be the .biz to eventually end up in the
> ICANN root system, and 2) the company would then perhaps be able to utilize
> a better domain name than, or an additional domain name to, bodyright.com.
> In any case, it would appear obvious (to me, at least) that this is hardly a


> 
> > Some registrants are hoping they will be able to secure identical
> > names in the ICANN .biz if it is entered into the root so they won't
> > be killed by them.  Many are concerned that ICANN will "cancel"
> > their registrations because they do not understand the process.
> > This is where most of the damage occurs - they don't understand,
> > so they panic and think we will cut them off somehow or that ICANN
> > will take their names from them.
> 
> point their DNS to the alternate root that contains .biz.  And anyone that
> registers a .biz domain name with the alternate root .biz registry should
> know that...at least if the registrar or registry makes that perfectly clear
> ahead of time.  And, as mentioned, I personally don't believe that is being
> done (I refer this time to the website copy, "they are real domains....these
> are all active domains".  NOTE: Yes, I know they are "real"; yes, I know
> they are "active".  But nowhere, at least that I could find, does it state

Actually, there are plenty of references which, correctly state - and
quite prominently so, That if your ISP hasn't already upgraded their DNS
from that of the deprecated ICANN legacy system you need to do so. 

Our Hostmaster team deals very little with any lack of understanding on
this issue, due in part to the prominent placement of notices to upgrade,
but more specifically because it is not the public's average joe that is
having dificulty grasping this concept. It's easy for them to understand.
Most of our tech support hours lies in the area of lost passwords and what
to put in for nameservers - the same thing that takes most of the support
time with all providers.

It seems the people who find the most difficulty with this concept are the
people whom we would least likely suspect - people such as yourself.

Why is that Jeff? are you just being resistant to public demand? The ISPs
are eating it up and selling websites like crazy:)

Finally, I personaly very little time to waste worrying  about what you
think - especially considering you wouldn't be bothering to argue this
point unless we were garnering such phenominal public support and
acceptance in the first place ;)

Why don't you register a free domain with us? They're really free you
know. Or would that be against your religion?

I promise we don't bite ;)

Kindest regards,

Bradley D. Thornton
Chief Technology Officer
The PacificRoot/Joint Technologies Ltd.
http://www.PacificRoot.com
http://www.JointTech.com

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