Re: Who's in charge of Domains?

[avc@netnamesusa.com (Antony Van Couvering)]

FYI:

CNet has made a big investment in .com.  They own news.com, software.com, a
whole bunch of other things .com.  They paid good money for them, and they
are making good money off of them.

Now here comes software.web, software.store, whatever.  Ooops, looks like
CNet might have made a costly mistake.

Margie Wylie is a "reporter" who has seriously misrepresented the gTLD-MoU
again and again.  In the CNet broadcast she was identified as an
"editorialist", but that's a very charitable characterization.

In the report you refer to she said that the group was the IAHC, then the
iPOC, "and now they're calling themselves CORE", implying that here are a
bunch of people who don't know what to call themselves when she knows
perfectly well that CORE is a separate group. Nothing actionable, but
disingenuous to say the least.

Question is, what does CNet have at stake here?  Answer: quite a bit.  Draw
your own conclusions.

Pointing to a news source doesn't prove anything.  Looking at the news,
looking at the motivations of the different players, including the
reporters or their parent company, is an entirely different matter.

Here in the U.S. we're used to fairly reputable, if information-free, news.
 Now that anyone can set up their own newspaper on the Internet, we are
starting to see rhetoric and position papers masquerading as news.  That's
not necessarily a bad thing, but the "news" has to be read a little
differently.

Antony

At 05:54 PM 11/7/97 -0500, Jay@Iperdome.com wrote:
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>FYI:
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>> CNET
>> 
>> Who's in charge of Domains? 
>> November 5, 1997 
>> 
>> The power structure of the Internet has always been elusive, but these
>> days, it's just downright baffling. Just yesterday one of the parties
>> battling over the future of the Net's naming system announced it has
>> hired a contractor to help bring online seven more "generic top-level
>> domains" to compete with ".com." 
>> 
>> The problem is, nobody really knows how much, if any, authority this
>> committee-of-a-thousand-names has to make its plan stick.
>
>See the whole story at:
>	http://www.news.com/Perspectives/perspectives.html?ntb.pers
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>
>Regards,
>
>Jay Fenello
>President, Iperdome, Inc.  
>404-250-3242  http://www.iperdome.com
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