[IFWP] FYI - Common Cause/CDT Letter to ICANN re: At-Large elections (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Reply via email to [IFWP] FYI - Common Cause/CDT Letter to ICANN re: At-Large elections (fwd), !Dr. Joe Baptista Re: [IFWP] FYI - Common Cause/CDT Letter to ICANN re: At-Large elections (fwd), Michael Sondow

[IFWP] Re: FYI - European ccTLDs refuse to pay ICANN fee? (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, William X. Walsh wrote: Hello Joe, Tuesday, June 06, 2000, 12:52:09 PM, you wrote: JB FYI: More ccTLD's say no to ICANN FEES Good for them! As I have said in the past, the ccTLDs are the weak link for ICANN. They will be the test of ICANN's presumed "authority"

[IFWP] Re: Some thoughts on a chartered GTLD for trade unions

2000-06-02 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
This .union is a bad idea. 1. It completely ignores existing .union domain holders in the name.space root zone. Even though the name.space root zone is run in an unprofessional manner - documented from time to time in these groups, one must still respect the legacy domains operational in

[IFWP] Rejected posting to DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET (fwd)

2000-06-01 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: At 17:14 31.05.2000 -0400, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: Our current stats: 6,865 Domains registered and validated 1,108 Domain holders Average squat factor 6.2. No Harald - we don't have any squat factor

Re: [IFWP] Re: dot.GOD - the latest

2000-06-01 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Andy Gardner wrote: Our current stats: 6,865 Domains registered and validated 1,108 Domain holders Average squat factor 6.2. No Harald - we don't have any squat factor. That is an ICANN definition which has only served to give

[IFWP] Network Solutions - ATTENTION - what's happening with this?

2000-06-01 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Network Solutions - ATTENTION - what's happening with this? http://www.thestar.com/thestar/editorial/updates/business/2601NEW01d_CI-DOMAIN1.html There should also be some consideration here to pursue criminal action. This is theft. Registrant: Billy Tandoko Kotak Pos 3988 JKP Jakarta

[IFWP] ICANN defends Internet management [ more!] from IDG.net (fwd)

2000-06-01 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
ICANN DEFENDS INTERNET MANAGEMENT (Source: InfoWorld.com) ICANN's lack of public exposure has led to misconception about this private sector body charged with technical management of the Net, according to Esther Dyson. http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=269032 poor ol ester polyester

[IFWP] Re: Domain Names Hijacked news article (fwd)

2000-06-01 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:00:49 -0400 From: Todd Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Domain Names Hijacked" news article Yeah .. just one more example of NSI's unwillingness to get off their butts and do anything. This has been

[IFWP] An Open letter to ICANN (fwd)

2000-06-01 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:39:22 -0400 From: Rick Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: An Open letter to ICANN Mr. Mike Roberts CEO ICANN RE: NICANN and the new dot.pod TLD Dear Mr. Roberts, I would like to invite you to join the

[IFWP] dot.GOD stats for may

2000-06-01 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
http://god.pccf.net/admin/stats-2000-06-01/index.htm regards Joe Baptista

[IFWP] dot.GOD - the latest

2000-05-31 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Our current stats: 6,865 Domains registered and validated 1,108 Domain holders 1,220 Domains in que waiting validation 1 Domain deletion request by owner 105 Domain Duplicates or errors 304 Bogus Domain registrations Our

[IFWP] Re: [Nc-tlds] Re: Some thoughts on a chartered GTLD for trade unions

2000-05-31 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Wed, 31 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Dr." Joe, First of all, this list is no place for your noise. It is a discussion of NCTLDs and not a sounding board for your professional disruptions. This list Paul is also not a place for publishing misinformation, and I claim again that

[IFWP] some dot.god stats

2000-05-30 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Well - here are some very general stats on the dot.GOD registry. 5935 domain registered and validated 996 domain holder 2471 domains in que waiting validation 1 deletion request by owner 97 Duplicates or errors 340 Bogus registrations It's interesting to note that

[IFWP] Our first dot.GOD zone file

2000-05-28 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
http://god.pccf.net/admin/gtld-zone-2000-05-28.txt If you detect any errors please feel free to advise - whois is located at: http://god.pccf.net/cgi-bin/whois.cgi soon we'll be surfing - actually you can surf it now - but few people know how - so if you know feel free.

[IFWP] Re: Our first dot.GOD zone file

2000-05-28 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
of our batches crashed. crom is A RR to 204.107.129.8 Regards Joe Baptista On Sun, 28 May 2000, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: http://god.pccf.net/admin/gtld-zone-2000-05-28.txt If you detect any errors please feel free to advise - whois is located

[IFWP] A word of caution re SS voting membership (fwd)

2000-05-26 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
More ICANN FUD. I'm not surprised - this process is so corrupt it stinks to the hills and back. Shame. However this whole rolly polly show is being closed - so enjoy while you can. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 20:57:28 +1200 From: Joop Teernstra [EMAIL

[IFWP] Re: Ask.God

2000-05-26 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
The mans right - knows his business. On Fri, 26 May 2000, Simon Higgs wrote: http://god.pccf.net/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?whois=ask http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=342106167 With that said I would like to announce our policy concerning domain speculation - it's not our

[IFWP] PCCF to close for the Summer

2000-05-26 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
The dot.god universe has exploded - I think that is clear. And unlike ICANN - I know where the cookie is buttered - so to speak. Therefore - it is with the greatest of pleasure that I announce I have been given permission to close down PCCF for the summer. Furthermore - the ICANN production

[IFWP] dot.GOD registry closed for beta testing

2000-05-26 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
It is a pleasure to announce that we have reached 8,500 registered dot.GOD domain names. Our request for beta testers has exceeded our expectations. We are now moving to the next stages: 1) Clearing our batch backlogs 2) building and testing our first zone file 3)

[IFWP] Ester Polyester - speaks [ga] Status of ICANN PINs (fwd)

2000-05-25 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 22:07:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mikael Pawlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ga] Status of ICANN PINs Did you apply for ICANN membership? Are you still waiting for the PINs? So did I, but thanks to Esther Dyson I

[IFWP] God Know what this is all about???

2000-05-25 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Has anybody any idea what this is all about? Looks scary to me and it's s fine example that people are desparate for names - even to the extent of working within the existing system resulting in some bizzare examples. Regards joe Baptista - Original Message - From: Kwon Tayseek

[IFWP] Re: dot.god domain requests (fwd)

2000-05-23 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Fred Hutter wrote: "!Dr. Joe Baptista" wrote: How are they going to feel when they realize ICANN is preventing them from running safe family values tld's. Making the big assumption that u r serious for a moment, and further Oh but I am serious. Very s

[IFWP] more sunrise in press stuff

2000-05-22 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
http://www.news.com/Perspectives/Column/0,176,432,00.html?st.ne.per.gif.a Trademark owners may get millions of new names May 19, 2000 The Internet's policy organization is considering a proposal that would give trademark holders "first dibs" on millions of planned new domain names. The

[IFWP] Re: dns language and damn speculators

2000-05-21 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Mark Jeftovic wrote: Domain Name: JEFTOVIC.COM Registrar: ALABANZA, INC. Whois Server: whois.bulkregister.com Referral URL: www.bulkregister.com Name Server: NS1.TO-BUY-THIS-DOMAIN-FAX-305-463-9709.COM Name Server: NS3.THIS-DOMAIN-IS-FOR-SALE.COM

[IFWP] dot-god.com shared class C dns secondary

2000-05-21 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I'm in the process of moving on of our class c networks. I'm looking to share the class c to help people setup root secondary servers. If you have roots running now on your own networks and can swap secondaries with us - were looking for secondaries in various parts of the world to swap for

[IFWP] RE: dot.god domain requests (fwd)

2000-05-20 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
1,200 individuals. In three days. On Sat, 20 May 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: Yes but, how many registrants? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Baptista Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 9:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

[IFWP] This is an Open Letter to the ICANN Board.

2000-05-19 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Hi Ester, ladies, gentelmen and non specific gender types (You know who you are ;-) I am writing you to lodge an official protest concerning Year 1999 DNSO Secretariat report 1999 milestones located at: http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/1999.Secretariatreport.html I would like to draw

[IFWP] Re: This is an Open Letter to the ICANN Board.

2000-05-19 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
that non of it could of been possible with you and Mr. Gato. So my advise is - sit back and enjoy the fame. Regards Joe Baptista On Fri, 19 May 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: At 03:11 19.05.2000 -0400, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: Hi Ester, ladies, gentelmen and non specific gender types (You

[IFWP] I-D ACTION:draft-mealling-pin-urn-00.txt (fwd)

2000-05-19 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I have not read it - wil later - but sounds like fun. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 06:52:04 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IETF-Announce: ; Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-mealling-pin-urn-00.txt A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts

Re: [IFWP] Re: Kent's Rhetoric and Bombast - and ICANN the Scam..

2000-05-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
, of course there are no trailing "-'s"... Is that ok with you Louis or Mike? !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeff Williams wrote: As for Kent, well the bullshit flowith! Joe B. How about a .GOD special domain for Kent and Songbird. I know you can come up with

Re: [IFWP] Re: Kent's Rhetoric and Bombast - and ICANN the Scam..

2000-05-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
-Songbird.god sound joe? ;) Oh yes, of course there are no trailing "-'s"... Is that ok with you Louis or Mike? !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeff Williams wrote: As for Kent, well the bullshit flowith! Joe B. How about a .GOD special domai

Re: [IFWP] Re: Kent's Rhetoric and Bombast - and ICANN the Scam..

2000-05-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
-songbird.god CrispyCrockett-songbird.god ect... ect... I think you can follow the direction here joe? ;) Reserve a few of those for Michael Graham as well would you be so kind to do so. And bill me on the total amount. !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: Shall I register it in your name Jeff

Re: [IFWP] dot.god on internet news

2000-05-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
You want a domain name too Ellen? Just remember, the dot.god tld was operated by the Church long before you wrote your little ditty. Back in May 17 1996 the church began operating the tld as a naming convention for internal networks. Furthermore on the 31 Jul 1996 Jan K. Masek made a request

[IFWP] GWU's Democracy Online Project: Panel May 22nd (fwd)

2000-05-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Thought this might be of interest to the list. For media contacts or more information: Richard Sheehe 202-994-3087 Anna McCollister 202-261-2897 http://www.gwu.edu/~media/pressreleases/05-12-00-DemocracyOnline.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

[IFWP] Re: Give it up, Please!! (fwd)

2000-05-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
A censored communication of interest to all of us in tld's. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 12:11:23 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CENSORED Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Give it up, Please!! Hello: The article fails to mention the history of this

[IFWP] more .god yada yada yada

2000-05-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/18/2346226 You can all consider the slashdot disscussions our contribution to the Sunrise + 20 crap. Love and kisses Joe Baptista

Re: [IFWP] more .god yada yada yada

2000-05-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
sure you have the right URL? !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/18/2346226 You can all consider the slashdot disscussions our contribution to the Sunrise + 20 crap. Love and kisses Joe Baptista Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup

[IFWP] dot.god on internet news

2000-05-17 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,2171,10_364761,00.html Regards Joe Baptista

Re: [IFWP] dot.god on internet news

2000-05-17 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
oe and all, This is a nice and truthful piece of journalism at least and at last. Nice work Joe. May God be with you! ;) !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,2171,10_364761,00.html Regards Joe Baptista Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup

Re: [IFWP] Re: Kent's Rhetoric and Bombast - and ICANN the Scam..

2000-05-17 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeff Williams wrote: As for Kent, well the bullshit flowith! Joe B. How about a .GOD special domain for Kent and Songbird. I know you can come up with something wholesome! ;) Send me the bill on the registration. songbird.god is taken. any other choices? or

Re: [IFWP] Were you consulted?

2000-05-16 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
They didn't consult me - and they were warned in Cairo that would be a bad thing. Regards Joe Baptista On Tue, 16 May 2000, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: As you may know, ICANN suddenly announced last week that it has formed Election and Nominating Committees, without any

[IFWP] Re: (OT) Re: Sunset for sunrise

2000-05-15 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Repoman wrote: ( Answer to !Dr Joe: Yes I'm new here and grateful to be able to share my simple views on topics utilizeing my simple instincts honed by 'hands on brick and mortar' as I suspect you are as well. Yup Btw: What the hell is a 'Fud'?My guess:

Re: Subject: [IFWP] dot.god is property.

2000-05-15 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
eter Playboy decides to start up a porn magazine at playboy.nom. - --gregbo -- Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:55:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "!Dr. Joe Baptista" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IFWP] Re: Sunset for sunrise On Mon, 15 May 2000, Patrick Corliss wro

[IFWP] Re: Fw: Your names council at work

2000-05-15 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Ken - your full of shit. Forgive me - but truth in advertising. Your a names council exec - you should conduct yourself accordingly and not put ICANN in a position for being sued for libel and slander. Are you not tired of being sued yourself and pursued by creditors. You can learn from your

[IFWP] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-requirements-02.txt (fwd)

2000-05-15 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Well at least were moving closer to internationalized domain names, at least one guide closer. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 06:51:07 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IETF-Announce: ; Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-requirements-02.txt

[IFWP] dot.god is property.

2000-05-15 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
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

[IFWP] Fw: FIRST PASS - IPv8 Floating Root Survey (fwd)

2000-05-14 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
- Original Message - From: Jim Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 2:47 AM Subject: FIRST PASS - IPv8 Floating Root Survey This is the first pass of the IPv8 Floating Root Survey There are only 198 TLDs widely known enough to pass the first

[IFWP] floating root technology

2000-05-14 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I'm convenced the method to deploy in liberating the root is via the establishment of a tld for that specific purpose in accordance with the provisions contained in RFC 2606 and RFC 1464. Which see ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/bcp/bcp32.txt and ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1464.txt respectively.

[IFWP] Fw: Floating Root Project - Not done yet... (fwd)

2000-05-14 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 03:23:22 -0500 From: Jim Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: !Dr. Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: Not done yet... IN-ADDR-ONLINE.com available INC-NIC.com available IN-ADDR-INC.com available NET-NIC.com available

[IFWP] RFC 2825 on Issues: I18N, Domain Names, and Internet Protocols (fwd)

2000-05-11 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Internationalized domain names. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 15:09:57 -0700 From: RFC Editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IETF-Announce: ; Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RFC 2825 on Issues: I18N, Domain Names, and Internet Protocols A new Request

[IFWP] root server survey

2000-05-10 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
To date 95,115 nameservers have been surveyed for private roots, 94,807 of those dns use the USG root (99.7%) the remainder are composed of legacy, private roots or alternate root server confederations: Here is the list of root server confederations and the number of nameserver found using them

Re: [IFWP] dot com count

2000-05-10 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Richard J. Sexton wrote: What is .ppt? Can't you make this graph a gif? ppt = Power point file. gif are at http://dns.pccf.net/reports/dot_com_count/Slide1.GIF http://dns.pccf.net/reports/dot_com_count/Slide2.GIF At 06:58 AM 5/10/00 -0400, you wrote: I've

[IFWP] dot com count

2000-05-10 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I've graphed the data from the dot com count - we only have three weeks of it - but I can already see some trends in the data. It looks like NSI dumps unpaid domains every wed and thur. I expect that trend will continue. Here the power point file

[IFWP] Floating root servers and stupid lawyer questions - was: Sunrise

2000-05-09 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Michael Graham wrote: Poring over today's postings and Ellen et al.'s comments that the "trademark interests" are holding the Internet hostage, and I got to wondering: What is it, exactly, about permitting trademark owners priority to register their trademarks as secondary

[IFWP] Floating Root Technology

2000-05-06 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Does anyone have an opinion on "Floating Root Technology". I think it's an excellent idea - give everyone control of the root. I've just received a message on this from someone who I consider has exceptionally nice brain cells and it got me all excited - are you excited too? If anyone has

[IFWP] ICANN - Yokohama - most of Jap govt comps down

2000-05-06 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Most of the japanease computer system for federal government is offline. Only bits and parts are available. Looks like I love you gave the world a big kiss yesturday. regards Joe Baptista

[IFWP] Floating Root Technology

2000-05-06 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
We've had a discussion concerning floating root technology and would be interested in public input. http://www.pccf.net/correspondence/roots/fleming.1/ Regards Joe Baptista

[IFWP] ICANN - Child Porn and Yokohama

2000-05-03 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
It is with the greatest of pleasure that I announce the theme of this years quartly meeting of ICANN - Yokohama. As vetran ICANN watchers will know, I like to assign themes from time to time with respect to ICANN meetings. For ICANN Santiago - our theme was "Hats, the fiasco of Santiago", for

[IFWP] This sort of crap really bothers me - ICANN Sunrise Plus TwentyProposal (fwd)

2000-05-03 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I keep getting solicitation messages from ICANN cronies. Why? Anyway - this goes into my reply email file and i just felt like shareing. This will be replied to some time later as a public message. I hate ICANN solicitaions. I'm still waiting for my membership @Large - has anyone actually

Re: [IFWP] This sort of crap really bothers me - ICANN Sunrise PlusTwentyProposal (fwd)

2000-05-03 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Ben Edelman wrote: For the record, as far as I know, Mark Chen has no affiliation with the Berkman Center. Harvard is, after all, an awfully big place! Ben Edelman Berkman Center for Internet and Society Harvard Law School !Dr. Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[IFWP] Re: Finally - the Christians have arrived, was Re: Christ IS Risen!

2000-05-02 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Wawa A. Ngenge wrote: Would they control content for NON-CHRISTIAN communities too? Wawa Why would they want to? The point of using tld's to filter content is to provide christian groups with control of their own name space. The same applies for family values groups.

[IFWP] a Core tradition lives on - Transfers from CORE (fwd)

2000-05-02 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 16:19:53 +0800 From: Franky Tong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Transfers from CORE Does anybody here notice some extremely long delay for transferring CORE domains? I successfully transferred two domains from two

[IFWP] ICANN Meetings in Yokohama

2000-05-01 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Just a brief note to the troops. As always PCCF continues it's fine tradition of reaching out to our government officials. I have just received the most recent report from our Yokohama daemons which are as I type surfing japanese government computer sites collecting, compiling and indexing

[IFWP] Finally - the Christians have arrived, was Re: Christ IS Risen!

2000-05-01 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Alexander: Welcome to ICANN's NCDNHC. For a history of ICANN and info on why it is against god and everything else good with the world - please reference the following URL. http://www.cookreport.com/icannoverall.shtml I advocate the creation of family value top level domains. If you

[IFWP] NSI whois anomily

2000-04-30 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I've just noticed something very strange. We manage the earth-net.net domain on behalf of the estate of John Hunt. We recently paid NSI the regular yearly fee and check the whois database on a regular bases for the various domain under our administration. if you enter the following string

[IFWP] http://www.eu-registry.com/ revisited

2000-04-30 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Once again this group should be congratulated for making a difference. The self proclaimed eu-registry at http://www.eu-registry.com/ have revised their policy; "We are currently revising our site in order to allow everyone to pre-register .EU WITHOUT any fee at the moment of the initial

[IFWP] Re: Network Solutions Business .EU (pre)registry

2000-04-28 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Is this real or is this bullshit? bogus telephone number, but netsolbiz look real enough. The EU has not sanctioned this. This looks alot like fraud and misinformation. Consumers should be warned. Once again - the eu has not sanctioned this. No mechinisim is in place by the eu to proceed to

[IFWP] this is what i love about dns people

2000-04-28 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Recently Alejandro Pisanty, an ICANN puppet who is fluent in Spanish - posts some information to a south american network operators list I subscribe too - very low traffic - everyone's more or less polite. But Elejandro does not even bother to translate it - which he can do quickly - or even

[IFWP] Root Server Statistics - Revisited

2000-04-27 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Yesturday I published a test on root server response times and failure rates which seems to have caused a bit of an uproar with root server operators and much discussion. As is my usual habit - I published the results without much explanation and I appologize for all the concern it has caused.

[IFWP] a new root server confederation - listed on NASDAQ

2000-04-27 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I just found a new root server confederation http://ww.rmi.net/ Rocket mountain networks NASDAQ listing RMII. I love finding new stuff. Looks like this is an internal root network or an experiment. I must remind myself to find out more. Heres the root: ; DiG 8.1 @ROOT1.RMI.NET. . any ;

[IFWP] root server statistics

2000-04-26 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Some interesting data I just found. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 05:07:16 -0400 From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here are the results of the first test. Please note - IDNS root server b.i-dns.net. (203.37.255.102) is down due to a subway

Re: [IFWP] root server statistics

2000-04-26 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
All of your questions are good. The server where the tests were conducted did not use icmp. The time in millisec was obtained from dig which calculates the response time to a question on it's own. Also the data is biased - the program is being run on an IP string which is next door to ORSC

[IFWP] Latest root server report

2000-04-25 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Here is the latest root server report for Tuesday April 25th at 1:13PM. Earlier percentages remain the same - 99.7% of the world is using the current United States Government Roots - 0.3% of the world uses their own or one of the confederations. # DNS Root Server SOA ===

[IFWP] IRSC root servers - problems with (fwd)

2000-04-24 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
) From: !Dr. Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IRSC root servers - problems with Hello Adam: I'm writing to you concerning the IRSC root servers. I seem to be having some problems with understanding the infrastructure. You seem to have 3 different root files. ftp

[IFWP] [ga] Proposed rule for registering to vote in the GA (fwd)

2000-04-19 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
our friend at icann continue the horseshit. Harald Tveit Alvestrand and roberto gato from the GA orchestrated a fradulent vote some time ago - and now are engineering another round of entertainment. These are the same people who were blasted at the icann cairo meeting for bastardizing

Re: [IFWP] Criticism of Lessig's recent book

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
wrong url - try http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Working_Papers/00_rotenberg_1/index.htm On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Greg Skinner wrote: http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Working_Papers/00_Rotenberg_1 This is a working paper, so please do not cite it without the author's permission. I gave the paper

Re: [IFWP] alternate roots and the dns that serves them

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I just went through my little list here and found something interesting - one service http://www.mobiledns.com/ offers alternate roots to .web tld's and private tld's to their customers. Very inovative of them On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Joe Baptista wrote: A few people have contacted me with

[IFWP] Re: alternate roots and the dns that serves them

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Any dns server can operate as a root server. If a dns server runs the "." zone - then it's s root server. Example - if I wanted to operate a root server using the ORSC roots, as i do on mine - I secondary the file from the ORSC primary root server. Example: I would change my named.conf file

[IFWP] Re: Alternative Roots LIABILITY??? Some Questions...

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Ron Bennett wrote: Before people get all excited about alternative roots, think about liability... For example what happens if an alternative root has incorrect information?? That's not possible Ie. Let's say an alternative root has Buy.com pointing to some

[IFWP] [Random-bits] Stefan Friedman: no 3-letter .com names left (fwd)

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:11:27 -0400 From: James Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list RANDOM-BITS [EMAIL PROTECTED], ecommerce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Random-bits] Stefan Friedman: no 3-letter .com names left As ICANN

[IFWP] Re: [Nc-tlds] Re: DNSO Names Council decides it can discount andignore its working groups

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
There's a few problems with the namespace roots which I'll spell out here. 1. Non of the namespace root servers provide for zone transfers of the root. Therefore it is impossible to determine what tld space is in them. 2. Lack of co-operation - when John Hunt enumerated the namespace he

[IFWP] Re: i-dns.net (fwd)

2000-04-17 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:44:04 -0400 (EDT) From: !Dr. Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: YJ Park [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: i-dns.net I think it's time for a history lesson on i-dns. i-dns

[IFWP] TUCOWS.com Comments on IPC Sunrise Proposal (fwd)

2000-04-16 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I don't know if this has been posted yet - but it's a good little write up concerning tucows response to Comments on IPC Sunrise Proposal. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:51:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Ross Wm. Rader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: [IFWP] What is civil society?

2000-04-13 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Fanello - this civil society crap the EU and US are plying on us is more appropriately termed bullshit. Mind control has reached a new level of absurdity. Regards Joe Baptista On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jay Fenello wrote: Anyone watching the President of the World Bank on C-Span may be

Re: [IFWP] DNSO participation (Was: Re: Interpol issue)

2000-04-12 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Greg: Richard has made it very clear to you that he will not participate in this farce called the DNSO. The DNSO voice is in desparate need of voices to rationalize thier farce - and Richard has no intention of lending his name or support to the DNSO farce Now - why am I denied participation

[IFWP] let us pause and pray for elian

2000-04-12 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
http://www.elian.cu/

[IFWP] Re: [ga] [Admin] Removal of posting rights

2000-04-11 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Looks like the horseshit in the GA keeps getting thicker. I have asked Mr. Cohen personally if he is one of the pedophiles involved in the Fort Lauderdale scandal which has been supressed here in Canada. Mr Cohen has choosen to not respond. Regards Joe Baptista On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Harald

Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN/DNSO (fwd)

2000-04-07 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
full of vile it's scary stuff. And once again he's played the fool for all of us to watch. On opensrs some guy came close to calling him a little hitler. He's a poor twisted soal - I shall pray for him tonight. Regards Joe Baptista !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: Well - those censored messages

Re: [IFWP] [awpa] An Internet Awakening

2000-04-06 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Ken Freed wrote: whether Internet commercialization will be accompanied by a social/cultural awakening to our global interactivity, an awakening that will amplify desires for democracy. By democracy I take it your not attempting to refer to the old way of doing things

[IFWP] Re: ICANN/DNSO (fwd)

2000-04-06 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
here is a recent private email exchange I had concerning the big picture. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:32:25 -0400 (EDT) From: !Dr. Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: censored Cc: censored Subject: Re: ICANN/DNSO On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, censored wrote

[IFWP] Fool.com TMF Interview With Register.com (StockTalk) April 6, 2000(fwd)

2000-04-06 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
An interesting interview with Register.com http://www.fool.com/foolaudio/transcripts/2000/stocktalk000406_rcom.htm Fool.com TMF Interview With Register.com (StockTalk) April 6, 2000.url smime.p7s

[IFWP] Re: ICANN/DNSO (fwd)

2000-04-06 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Well - those censored messages are now in the public domain. So here's a copy of the full message. Poor WXW is seeing ghosts again. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:17:01 -0700 From: Jeff Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

[IFWP] Re: tucows and open srs is falling apart

2000-04-05 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Andy Gardner wrote: One only needs to review the archives of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list to read some of the sexually explicit things you said about Elisabeth Portenouve (sp?), to fully realise just _who_ needs to learn some "serious" manners. There's the pity. I'll

[IFWP] Implode like a black hole (fwd)

2000-04-05 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/000405/20/is-icann-the By Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet News TORONTO -- Critics of the International Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Wednesday called on the board to develop a charter with a bill of rights that would spell out specifically

[IFWP] Re: Press Releases (fwd)

2000-04-04 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
: !Dr. Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Press Releases Greg Shapiro has already corrected your false assertion that Paul maintains Sendmail, so I will not waste time on that. (Paul did, with Frank Avolio, write a book titled "Sendmail: Theory and Practice.&qu

[IFWP] Re: Press Releases (fwd)

2000-04-04 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
my reply to vixie. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:23:41 -0400 (EDT) From: !Dr. Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul A Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mike Bilow [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Press Releases Wonderful. This is a first. Paul

[IFWP] a challenge to Vixie's vixens

2000-04-04 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:52:10 -0400 (EDT) From: !Dr. Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul A Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mike Bilow [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Press Releases Paul: I've just spoken to some of my collegues and we

[IFWP] This guys on the ball - Re: Transfers: A bit of an explanation (fwd)

2000-04-03 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
The law of equity in Canada gives control of domain names to resellers if admin defaults. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:01:04 -0800 (PST) From: Coolfred Internet Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Transfers: A

[IFWP] Re: This guys on the ball - Re: Transfers: A bit of anexplanation (fwd)

2000-04-03 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
That's an interesting twist. I don't think the Canadian courts would much care about a lower US courts decision. But the location of control is a valid point. I'll pass it on. Regards Joe On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Andy Gardner wrote: The law of equity in Canada gives control of domain names to

[IFWP] RE: realtime root server updates someday? (fwd)

2000-04-03 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
. Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: realtime root server updates someday? !Dr. Joe Baptista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I don't think it's technically possible to update the file in real time. The dot.com file is in excess of 900 megs

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