Re: 71% or so of .COM registrants are Americans: Right!

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 03:19:19PM +0000, Jim Dixon wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Mark Henderson-Thynne wrote:
[...]
> > I have produced accurate figures based upon a true copy of the available
> > data. Do you still argue that 97% of .coms are owned by Americans?.
> 
> No.  But then I never did.

Nonsense.  What you actually said was "Given the fact that something
like 97% of .COM registrants are America[sic],...". 


>  For one thing, I avoid the use of the word
> "owned"; I question the applicability of this concept.  I said something 
> similar to "something like 97% of .COM domains are registered to domain 
> name holders in the US and Canada".

See above for what you really said.

[...]

> The experience of discussing issues like this with proponents of the 
> gTLD MOU and CORE has made me reconsider my evaluation of the 
> relative merits of CORE and NSI.  Yes, Network Solutions is a monopoly
> that claims copyright over the com/net/org database and has stupid,
> blind, offensive policies.  Unfortunately the MOUvement seems to be 
> claiming to have rights over all gTLDs

Nope.

[...]
> So why prefer one over the other?  Let's adopt your figures instead of
> Tony's.  There simply isn't that much difference between them.  The
> overwhelming majority of .COM registrants are American or Canadian,
> and their interest should be paramount in determining whether the .COM
> registry is moved.

Your statement is simply incoherent.  First of all, there is the
question of what moral code you use to justify the idea that Americans
should have preferential treatment in any domain name dispute.  
Second, the impact on Americans is minor, since most disputes are 
handled locally, anyway.

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