Re: [wg-c] Pre-sold TLDs

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 11-Apr-2000 James Love wrote:
> This is a naive question.  I know next to nothing of the history on
> this.  What difference does it make if CORE, Chris Ambler, Paul Garin,
> or anyone else ever wanted to create an alternative root system or some
> new TLD that wasn't approved by the establishment? Even if someone
> thought it was a bad idea, wouldn't that be a sign of risk taking,
> innovation, or spunk? Or should it be treated as some criminal act that
> has to be punished?

What they do in their own nameservers is their business.

The issue is if the domains they sold under those conditions should have any
standing in the legitimate process.  

What they have in their own nameservers doesn't really matter, no one is
seeking to criminalize that.  It is the presumption that they have any right in
the established namespace as a result of them deciding to go off and do their
thing without any legitimate established authority.  

So while we do not criminalize their acts, we also do not believe they should
be recognized as having any official standing of any sort whatsoever.

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