Re: A Preview - Iperdomes Response to the NOI

[Jay@Iperdome.com]

At 05:49 PM 8/15/97 -0400, Bill Semich wrote:
>Er, very intersting Jay, but... where does that leave ".per" and other
>alternative TLDs? Waiting for a post GIG world?? 


Iperdome believes that we will have a fair chance to be a 
private, free market registry under .per.us.

The U.S. has a long history of supporting and nurturing the free 
market, as well as a long legal history that is consistent with 
that support.  We trust that the private domain name industry
will be validated and accommodated under .us.

In fact, the process has already started.  In addition to the
Commerce Department's NOI, the U.S. Congress is likely to hold
public hearings towards the end of September, *before* the 
IAHC proposal has *any* chance to be implemented.  


>And are you assuming that all the ISO-3166 countries use "xx.com.xx" and
>"xx.org.xx", cause that just ain't so...many use a flat name space in
>fact.... ".fr," ".cl," ".am" etc. But not the US under your proposal?


That's a decision for each individual country to make for themselves!


>And are you assumming a kind of parallel ".us" universe, with the
>coexistence of the current "<companyname>.<city>.<state>.us" that Jon
>Postel developed? 


I wouldn't call it parallel.

Under .us, many business models can co-exist and 
compete at the same time:
  -  Regionally Distributed:  <companyname>.<city>.<state>.us
  -  Private:                 .com.us, .per.us
  -  Shared:                  .firm.us
  -  SIC Code:                .7045.us
  -  etc.


Regards,

Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.  
404-250-3242  http://www.iperdome.com