Re: Hijacked Domain Names?

[tor@wtv.net (Bob Allisat)]

>>  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.


Paul Lustgraaf wrote:
>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.

 IANA (Jon Postel) has already
 totally blown it. Why do you
 think this bogus IAHC committee
 was created? Because IANA was
 compromised and discredited.
 No-on trusts IANA. Wake up
 and smell the toast, Paul.

 And as for the guys who run
 the name servers I'll just bet
 when they have a new TLD or two
 to operate they'll recognize all
 the others lickety split. You're
 fighting a battle that was lost
 many weeks ago, IMHO.

 By the way... PRIOR USE is the
 only legal claim Internic has on
 the international playing field.
 The same is true for my small .FCN
 and .WTV and  the other new domain
 names.  Let's move forward and not
 into endless, bloody court battles,
 shall we? Accept what is and what
 is to come. 1,000 TLD's...

                             Bob Allisat

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