(fwd)New domain names afoot

[Bob Allisat <tor@wtv.net>]

c|net quotes:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,16031,00.html?latest
> Members of CORE and Emergent said today they are confident
> that they can overcome all hurdles in time to actually register new
> domain names. In fact, some of the members of CORE already
> are preregistering names. 
> 
> "This is no longer just talk," said Ken Rudin, chief executive of
> Emergent. "This is actually happening. Investments have already
> been made. Implementation on this system has actually begun." 

 So already someone has reserved ass.firm,
 eh? Talk about a DNS land grab! CORE wankers
 already scamming the best of an insufferably
 poor offering of domains! Let them take it all!
 What a joke... all that investment for a half
 dozen inferior Domain Names? Will someone do a
 reality check for me? Please! Tell me this is
 all clever satire in some witty farce.

 Didn't think so. Emmergant may well have to
 rename itself "Dispondant" once the truth of
 the situation sinks in. They are stuck with a
 lousy DNS commodity. Meanwhile all the other
 good Domains are FIRMly under claim by other,
 more intelligent DNS raiders.

 If Emmergant imagines they can scoop up all
 the new TLDs they are in for a rude awakening.
 Just as they cannot touch .COM they can't touch
 .WEB, .SEX, .XXX, .FUCK, .WWW, .800, .900, .WTV, 
 .FCN, .ZINE, .CANADA, .ART, .ALL-THE_REST or they
 will be in equally hot legal waters. See we all
 have equivallent claims to these domains. And we
 can all play the DNS terrorist game with InterNIC,
 IAHCnic or onyotherdamnNIC if none of these greedy
 bastards are willing to compromise and co-operate.

 TeleVirtually Yours,

 Bob Allisat

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