Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?

2005-08-02 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox


On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> 
> > The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good
> > answer.  Does anyone here have one?
> 
> to avoid being technical i guess the only answer would be to say this is a 
> private service offered to tiscali users and is not available to any non 
> tiscali 
> users (you might want to point out this is 99.9% of the world in case $cust 
> feels like switching)
> 
> > Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids...
> > 
> > "Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no
> > extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too.  How soon can we
> > start doing the same?"
> 
> tell them you've been able to do it all along, its your network and you can 
> provide any unique content that you like, providing they understand this is 
> unique for your custs only .. think intranet
> 
> > This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually also 
> > North
> > American ISPs (to make this on-topic :-) I hope the rest of us can stand
> > together against it.  A good start would be to come up with a common 
> > response
> > to the two pressure groups outlined above.
> 
> a better worded explanation on a webpage would be good i guess...
> 
> anyway, i'm off the the UNIDT website, i hear '.tiscali' hasnt been 
> registered 
> yet ;p

replying to myself. bad :)

had this pointed out.. these are "official" according to inaic
http://inaic.com/index.php?p=faq006

and resolving "all known tlds" seems a bit of a stretch, i think they've missed 
my '.foobar' tld on my local nameservers..

http://inaic.com/index.php?p=faq014


also for added humour, from the press release
http://inaic.com/index.php?p=tiscali-introduces

following the link: http://home.tiscali/

doesnt seem to work for me, hmm.. not great to have a broken link in a public 
press release ;)

Steve



Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?

2005-08-01 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Bjørn Mork wrote:

> The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good
> answer.  Does anyone here have one?

to avoid being technical i guess the only answer would be to say this is a 
private service offered to tiscali users and is not available to any non 
tiscali 
users (you might want to point out this is 99.9% of the world in case $cust 
feels like switching)

> Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids...
> 
> "Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no
> extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too.  How soon can we
> start doing the same?"

tell them you've been able to do it all along, its your network and you can 
provide any unique content that you like, providing they understand this is 
unique for your custs only .. think intranet

> This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually also North
> American ISPs (to make this on-topic :-) I hope the rest of us can stand
> together against it.  A good start would be to come up with a common response
> to the two pressure groups outlined above.

a better worded explanation on a webpage would be good i guess...

anyway, i'm off the the UNIDT website, i hear '.tiscali' hasnt been registered 
yet ;p

Steve



Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?

2005-08-01 Thread Brandon Butterworth

> "www.really-cool.alt.  Now fix your systems so I can access it"
> 
> The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good
> answer.

"Looks like your friend has been duped by some domain hijackers/phishers
exploiting a DNS security hole. We've kept you safe from that perhaps
your friend would like to move to us rather than the insecure ISP"

> Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids...
> 
> "Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no
> extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too.  How soon can we
> start doing the same?"

"I hear you can buy .tiscali for $1M so all our users plus
some others will get our site instead of theirs. Unfortunately
the same scam means a bunch of other people have .telenor"

> This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually
> also North American ISPs (to make this on-topic :-) I hope the rest of
> us can stand together against it.

The rot started when icann hijacked . and started selling
pointless gtlds, it's not surprising others want to do the
same.

brandon


Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?

2005-08-01 Thread Bjørn Mork

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:45:29 CDT, "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" said:
>> "... As a result of this agreement, Tiscali will offer to its subscribers
>> across Europe the access to the entire World Wide Web, including the new
>> alternative domain names.
>
> I can see it now...
>
> "Hello, Tiscali User Support"
>
> "I found this really cool website, and I mailed the address to 15 of my buds,
> and they're all saying it doesn't exist and I need to quit smoking crack"
>
> "What's the website?"
>
> "www.really-cool.alt.  Now quit playing mind games with me and make it work 
> for them."

I fear that Tiscali won't be the ones facing the problems.  Instead
we'll have

"Hello, Telenor User Support"

"My friend sent me a link to this really cool website, but your
stupid system tells me it doesn't exist"

"What's the website?"

"www.really-cool.alt.  Now fix your systems so I can access it"

The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good
answer.  Does anyone here have one?


Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids...

"Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no
extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too.  How soon can we
start doing the same?"


This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually
also North American ISPs (to make this on-topic :-) I hope the rest of
us can stand together against it.  A good start would be to come up
with a common response to the two pressure groups outlined above.


Bjørn


Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?

2005-07-31 Thread Florian Weimer

* John Palmer:

>>From their press release at
> http://www.tiscali.com/press/releases/10552825f1a.html
>
> "... As a result of this agreement, Tiscali will offer to its
>subscribers across Europe the access to the entire World Wide Web,
>including the new alternative domain names. The agreement underscores
>Tiscali's commitment to embrace technological developments that
>simplify, improve and expand the opportunities offered by internet
>..."

Interesting.  How do they address collisions with New.net support in
their resolvers?


Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?

2005-07-31 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson


On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

"www.really-cool.alt.  Now quit playing mind games with me and make it 
work for them."


Time for someone to put this alternate root on the real map and make it 
possible to use:


www.really-cool.alt.silly-new-tld-noXYZ.com

the XYZ to be able to separate all the different silly companies doing 
this, we need to keep tally of them.


--
Mikael Abrahamssonemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?

2005-07-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:45:29 CDT, "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" said:
> "... As a result of this agreement, Tiscali will offer to its subscribers
> across Europe the access to the entire World Wide Web, including the new
> alternative domain names.

I can see it now...

"Hello, Tiscali User Support"

"I found this really cool website, and I mailed the address to 15 of my buds,
and they're all saying it doesn't exist and I need to quit smoking crack"

"What's the website?"

"www.really-cool.alt.  Now quit playing mind games with me and make it work for 
them."





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Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?

2005-07-31 Thread John Palmer (NANOG Acct)


>From their press release at
http://www.tiscali.com/press/releases/10552825f1a.html

"... As a result of this agreement, Tiscali will offer to its subscribers 
across Europe the access to the entire World Wide Web,
including the new alternative domain names. The agreement underscores Tiscali's 
commitment to embrace technological developments
that simplify, improve and expand the opportunities offered by internet ..."

John