Re: Generic domain names

[pb@fasterix.freenix.fr (Pierre Beyssac)]

Jean-Noel Frydman writes:
> Let me first introduce myself: I'm Jean-Noel Frydman, founder of France
> OnLine. I'm speaking here not as a representative of a international
> corporation, organisation, nor institute but, as one of many thousands of
> so called web-entrepreneurs.
...
> Now, before I go on, I'd like to say that I am entirely in favor of
> breaking the Internic's monopoly on iTLD's. I am in favor of it because I
> am against monopolies  in general. I am in favor of it on a philosophical
> point of view, so to speak...
...
> So here's my recommandation (and it applies to generic domain names only!):
> that when opening new ITLD's companies or individuals who have registered a
> generic domain name with the Internic, and established a presence thanks to
> it, be given a first-chance to register a domain name where appropriate in
> the newly created iTLDS where appropriate.

Sorry, but this paragraph makes it sound like you're asking for a
monopoly. In other words, you don't like monopolies except when
they favor you, am I right? :-) How typical...

I've made the list of domains in .COM hosted on PARIS.FRANCE.COM,
one of your nameservers. Quite enlightening. You're a contact for
most of these (I deleted most of the others). So you'd like a
monopoly on the following names, if I understand you right, which
would make your owning these even more valuable (for resale, maybe?).

	- French generic names:

		ACTUALITE.COM ACTUALITES.COM
		AMERIQUE.COM AMERIQUES.COM
		ANNONCES.COM
		BROCHURES.COM
		CINEMA.COM
		ENCYCLOPEDIE.COM
		EROTIQUE.COM
		ETATS-UNIS.COM
		FRANCAIS.COM FRANCOPHONE.COM
		HISTOIRES.COM
		IMPRESSION.COM
		JOINTS.COM
		LIVRES.COM
		MUSIQUES.COM
		NOUVELLES.COM
		PAGESJAUNES.COM
		PROVENCE.COM

	- domains which you reserved or are hosting, and happen
	  (by chance) to collide with names of well-known French
	  companies... Tough luck for them, not for you :-)

	  (for non-french readers: Hachette is a major publishing
	  company, Le Club Méditerrannée is a travel agency better
	  known as "Le Club", Publicis is an ad agency and has
	  nothing to do with "Public Internet Systems")

	HACHETTE.COM
		La Hachette d'Or (HACHETTE-DOM)
		   6201 Sunset Blvd #124
		   LA, CA 90028

	LECLUB.COM
		Le Club des Rencontres (LECLUB-DOM)
		   c/o France OnLine 6201 Sunset Blvd # 124
		   LA, CA 90028

	PUBLICIS.COM
		Public Internet Systems (PUBLICIS-DOM)
		   8433 Holycross Place
		   LA, CA 90045

	- a few others you reserved...

		EROSWEB.COM FRANCE-USA.COM FRENCHPLAY.COM
		FRENCHWEB.COM GOFRANCE.COM NETGOURMET.COM
		PLANETFRANCE.COM GOLDENWEB.COM GOLDENWEBS.COM
		WEBCARDS.COM WEBCONTEST.COM WEBDEORO.COM
		WEBDOR.COM WEBFRANCE.COM POLNAREFF.COM
		TOP50.COM

	- and there's about 20 more which you only seem to host.

> (To make the point: who gets to register yahoo.web? Anybody, as long as
> they are the first one to request it?)

Yes. Why not? Don't tell me you would find that shocking, it would
be quite fun :-)

FCFS is like democracy: it's the worse system of all, but no one has
found anything better yet.
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Pierre Beyssac	    pb@fasterix.frmug.fr.net pb@fasterix.freenix.fr
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