More censored reporter stuff. Good for discussion.
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 13:25:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: !Dr. Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <CENSORED>
Subject: Re: reporter query
On Thu, 18 May 2000, <CENSORED> wrote:
> Just some general questions if you can spare a few
> moments.
>
> Why a ".god" registry? Who do you envision using the
> domain name? What might be the marketing advantages of
> having a .god web site?
To date we've had various requests for registration. Everything from Joe
Average (if there is such a creature) to net kooks and other ministries.
dot.god was not an arbitrary nor planned decision. The registry is a
natural extension of an internal network naming practice employed by our
Ministry since 1996. Machine (computers) which works were assigned
dot.god host names. Machines which were buggy were assigned to the top
level domain dot.satan.
The only marketing advantage I can see is that the dictionary term
"god" has had over 5,000 years of comprehensive marketing efforts by
various organizations - so it's well known. Will it be of any marketing
advantage to a web site? I don't know and our position is that we frankly
don't really care.
At this time we are developing policy for the registry and one of our
decisions is to release the tld to the domain holders when membership
levels are sustainable. I can't give you a figure on that level, at this
time were asking for opinions from the domain name industry.
> We cover marketing in the new media, and I wonder in
> general about the ecommerce implication of the .god
> domain.
It may have some benifits in ecommerce, I just don't know what they would
be. Sensationalism - maybe? I think it's more of a fun tld and certainly
qualifies as a vanity tld.
I have attached a copy of my original announcement on dot.god. You'll
notice it's more of an informal request for comments. Please don't
publish the web address. It was an accident it was published. That
address is just for testing - the registry is being opened on another
machine.
Regards
Joe Baptista
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 18 13:24:29 2000
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 04:42:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: !Dr. Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
NCDNHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IFWP] dot.god is property.
Hello:
Today I have begun moving the dot.god registry to a new box. We will be
running a one year test of the dot.god top level domain, formerly a
private tld employed and operated by the Church of the Universe in various
internal networks. The naming practice for tld.god began when it was
decided to provide internal resources to the brothers and all systems on
the private network were named something.god. later the brother
introduced the dot.satan tld for naming buggy computers on the internal
network. Alot of NT ended up in the dot.satan tld.
At this time we are drafting a charter for dot.god. The gist of it will
define that all dot.god second level domains are property. There will be
a one time fee to setup the domain space, and then a yearly fee for
maintanence. The yearly maintenance fee (our idea of property tax) will
be between $3.00 to $5.00 per year.
An administrative contract will provide management services for the tld
until such time as a community of owners is established at which time such
domain owners will be given control of the dot.god zone. We've been
debating defining a community as anything from 5,000 domain owners to
1 million.
I would welcome any suggestions concerning the above statement so I can
present it to the brothers and sisters for consideration.
I expect the tld will be tested for one year and we'll also be looking for
people willing to test. You will get a free dot.god tld for your effort
in helping us test. I'll be posting further details and applications
regarding this to the following lists:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
NCDNHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
dot.god allows for anonymous registrations and all applications will be
allowed a privacy flag. This means you can restrict people from accessing
your email address using our whois server.
Here's an example of a public whois output:
$ whois -h whois.pccf.net god.god
Welcome to .whois server
Database updated on: Wed Jan 12 04:04:16 EST 2000
Domain: god.god
Handle: 554909989110
Created: December 14, 1999
Updated: December 14, 1999
Status: Active
Description: The Gates of St. Peter start here!
Email: god@god
Organization: GOD Inc.
Virtual Map: PARKED AT NIC
and this is an example of a private whois output:
bash-2.03$ whois -h whois.pccf.net my.god
Welcome to .whois server
Database updated on: Wed Jan 12 04:04:16 EST 2000
Domain: my.god
Handle: 76889-21445
Created: January 12, 2000
Updated: January 12, 2000
Status: Active
PRIVATE DOMAIN: email domain contact via the following URL
http://god.pccf.net/cgi-bin/emailadmin?my.god=76889-21445
The whois URL's by the way won't work at this time.
Feel free to ask questions and more importantly your suggestions would be
welcomed.
Regards
Joe Baptista
