Re: Trademark problems and domain names

[Scott Tadman <tadman@martinet.com>]

Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Scott Tadman wrote:
>> 
>> If this was the way the whole Internet was run, I'd be preaching about eDNS.
>
>  Hummmm?  Not sure what you mean with this comment.  Please elaborate.

What I meant was that if _all_ the registries were as restrictive as the CA
one, I would be very motivated to find any sort of alternative, including
eDNS (http://www.edns.net/). They are a sort of rogue registry operating their
own nameservers as direct competition for the InterNIC. They allow gTLD
registrations right now, but they are only accessible to eDNS supporters, which
as of right now is really a small number.

However, in the really real world of the Internet, the InterNIC doesn't seem
to be all that bad. I still haven't heard of any scary InterNIC stories, though
I can imagine the trouble people have registering in their local registry.

How, exactly, is having 100 registrars and CORE going to be an improvement
over the InterNIC (SLD availability aside)? What kind of improvements can
be made?

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