Re: [wg-c] Pre-sold TLDs

[John Charles Broomfield <jbroom@manta.outremer.com>]

> On 10-Apr-2000 Kent Crispin wrote:
> > CORE has taken *no* registrations.  Period.  Zilch.  Nada. The big 
> > Goose egg.  Zero.  None.
> 
> Semantics Kent.  As you and others have pointed out several times, CORE IS ITS
> REGISTRARS.  So the registrars make up CORE and they have accepted
> registrations.
> 
> You can't have it both ways, depending on what is convienant at the moment.

There are many CORE registars that have gone to great lengths to NOT accept
preregistrations or create queues and indicate that so far there is no
definite signal on when or if any new TLDs will be added to the roots. By
your reasoning, CORE is morally pure because of the great lengths that these
registrars (that also make up CORE) have taken to indicate this. Of course,
it is neither one nor the other. Creating queues and accepting
preregistrations is an activity completely outside the scope and independent
of any agreement with CORE.

Yours, John Broomfield.