Re: Hijacked Domain Names?

[Paul Lustgraaf <grpjl@iastate.edu>]

>  PRIOR USE. Alternative TLD holders
>  have as much right to legitimately
>  claim .FCN, .WTV (or .WHATEVER) as
>  Internic has to claim .COM and .ORG.
> 
>  Since no governement I support with
>  my taxes or any International body
>  my elected representatives sanction
>  has governed the process we are all
>  equally free to claim TLD's within
>  the limitations of PRIOR USE. Recall
>  no-one has yet claimed hundreds of
>  TLD's. Just a few. All within reason.
>  Just like Internic. We are following
>  established practices and have PRIOR
>  USE. Let's see anyone try and reverse
>  this. Very unwise behaviour IMHO.


And the rest of us have the right to ignore
any TLD's that were not allocated according to
accepted procedures.  You seem to forget that your
precious .FCN is WORTHLESS unless 99+% of the
Internet community recognizes it.

PRIOR USE is of no consequence whatsoever.
This is a democracy and the voters (in this case,
those who run name servers) will determine who wins
and who loses.  I am backing the IANA on this one
unless and until they totally blow it.

Paul Lustgraaf                    "Change is inevitable.  Progress is not."
Manager of Network Services
Iowa State University Computation Center                   grpjl@iastate.edu
Ames, IA  50011                                                 515-294-0324