>Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 19:51:08 -0700 >To: Karl Auerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Bill Lovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: How come country code TLDs are all showing up with NSI > advertising? >Bcc: ƒ\Domain > >At 05:53 PM 5/21/99 -0700, you wrote: > >Network Solutions sorely misses a principle aspect of advertising: it can >be overwhelmingly NEGATIVE. It seems to me that the more it inflicts >its babble on the net as a whole, not only does that encourage everyone >to seek out ANY means to deal with ANYONE other than Network >Solutions, but it develops a mind set wherein no one would buy a >pencil from Network Solutions if it were sitting out on the sidewalk >with a tin cup. > >(You know the ads that are tacked on so as to cover over the >comics pages in the Sunday papers? Wherein you are obliged >to rip them off in order to read the comics? Do you keep a list >of the outfits that buy those ads? I sure do. Is that so I will >know whom NOT to buy from? Heh, heh!) > >Bill Lovell > >>If one goes to http://www.iana.org/cctld.html and peruses the various >>ccTLDs, every specific listing comes up on a Network Solutions web page >>bearing NSI advertising. >> >>Thus, if find .nu and bring up the details it is all wrapped up in NSI's >>headers, advertisements, etc, even though the small text that I was >>actually looking for pertains to a competing registry. >> >>This is not only odd, but it is improper. >> >>One should not be subjected to NSI hype when looking up it's competitors >>through the presumably fair minded ICANN/IANA mechanisms. >> >> --karl--
