Re: [TLDA-Members] Fwd: BulkRegister partners with New.Net (fwd)

From: Doug Braun at Emerge2 (doug@emerge2.com)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 22:28:50 EST


This attempt to create a separate "add-on" TLD/root space that only a very
small percentage of internet users can even access (and only if they or
their ISP did something special to access it) by an unofficial private
group has been discussed many times on this list. Here is a sample of some
of the reasons why this is a bad idea, as previously stated on this list
(from the list archives):

From: Duane Cook (dcook@9netweb.com):
http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0103/0119.html

From: Craig Bernstein (craigb@best.com):
http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0103/0104.html

From: shwa@swerve.com :
http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0108/0148.html

From: Robert L Mathews (lists@tigertech.com):
http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0108/0151.html

There are many more....

Doug

At 10:09 PM 1/31/03, you wrote:
>On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, at 21:45 [=GMT-0500], Doug Braun at Emerge2 wrote:
> > At 06:36 PM 1/31/03, you wrote:
>
> > >Looks like BulkRegister just got into the alternative domain business with
> > >new.net. Will tucows soon be offering domains in inclusive namespace?
> >
> > I sure hope not.
>
>Since this is the second dismissal I see here, I think I may ask:
>
>Why not?



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