[ga] Re: VeriSign/RealNames - XTNS

["Paul Cotton" <paulc@joinin.com>]

Tim,

"I don't understand your message. The reason I didn't mention XTNS in my
response is because Danny's message didn't reference XTNS at all. His
comments were solely restricted to VeriSign and Realnames Keywords
products."

This related to Jefsey's question: "Question to XTNS: you said you were
exclusive? Are you with
them on this?"

"As to you other points, I am totally mystified. We have not "made plenty of
noise about offering dotted keywords" -- in fact we have never once said
that we offer "dotted keywords" (not the least because we do not). The
namespaces we do offer are still on sale on our site and have not been
removed. Indeed they were recently enhanced by the launch of our fully
multilingual namespaces in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew and Arabic. I
am thus entirely at a loss to understand any part of your message."

Either you have amnesia or selective memory, because you were originally
offering "namespaces"  (which you also called "domains" and "domain names"
on your site) using prefixes of www. sex. store. and corp. - this was the
main push at your site.  These were dotted realnames keywords, that was
exactly how your technology was supposed to work but microsoft prevented you
from doing this even though you said you were working with microsoft when
questioned on this via your message board.

In addition, your site made numerous fraudulent statements, such as :

"XTNS DOMAINS CAN BE VIEWED BY OVER 360,000,000 INTERNET USERS WORLDWIDE!"

and

"XTNS Domains are accessible by over 87% of Internet users worldwide! "

and

"Anyone can view XTNS Domains as long as they are using the Microsoft
Internet Explorer browser (version 5.0 or higher). which over 87% users
worldwide do."

along with :

"Hot suggestions:
www.store.toycity
mens.store.shoes
www.corp.lapizza
www.playground"

The above are all taken from a cached copy of your front page. Now isn't
this at odds with "The namespaces we do offer are still on sale on our site
and have not been removed." and also this article:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7309540.html

"RealNames Chief Executive Keith Teare confirmed the problem, saying it
stems from the recent IE upgrade. But he doesn't expect any changes to the
browser's autosearch.

"XTNS namespaces that have a period...have ceased to function," he said. "We
don't think this status will change; it will remain this way for the
foreseeable future."

and

"Hundreds of companies have registered such addresses under XTNS' service
with RealNames, which went into effect Aug. 15, Langdell said. The Pasadena,
Calif.-based company says it was forced to suspend service to about 300
customers because of the new IE feature."

How on earth can you make the statement that these were not dotted keywords
when they relied on the realnames keyword resolver to work?

You simply removed all mention of these prefixed "namespaces" from your site
and have since acted as though they never existed.  You have a novel concept
of "enhancing" a service range.

Is any of this jogging your memory Tim?

regards

Paul Cotton

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