Re: [IFWP] .US ?

2002-04-28 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
very little advertising domestically, for one. On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Marc Schneiders wrote: > Why does it look as if .US is not very much in demand? Many short > words are still available. > > inject.us > injection.us > > Any ideas why? > > -- Please visit http://www.icannw

Re: [IFWP] .US ?

2002-04-27 Thread Einar Stefferud
I expect that the speculators are seeing less glittering future profits, and the market is proving that there is no danger in expanding the number of TLDs. Also, .US is not all that attractive in the first place. Cheers...\Stef At 12:44 AM +0200 4/28/02, Marc Schneiders wrote: >Why does it lo

[IFWP] .US ?

2002-04-27 Thread Marc Schneiders
Why does it look as if .US is not very much in demand? Many short words are still available. inject.us injection.us Any ideas why?

[IFWP] .US DOMAIN SPACE

2000-08-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
.US DOMAIN SPACE Issue: Internet The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), in a notice to be published shortly in the Federal Register, announced a Notice and a Request for public comment on a draft statement of work that the department contempla

[IFWP] .US To Be Under ICANN's Control? (Re: [Nc-tlds] NTIA releases Request for Comment on managment of .us ccTLD)

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Sondow
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/usrfc2/dotusrfc2.htm It is evident, from even a cursory reading of the NTIA's Request for Comments on its Statement of Work regarding the reorganization of .US, that the DOC intends, or at least wishes, to place .US under the aegis and control of ICAN

[IFWP] US Lawyers Upset By UDRP, Seeking Bigger Slice Of Internet Pie

2000-07-13 Thread Michael Sondow
COMPUTERGRAM INTERNATIONAL: JULY 14 2000 SECTION: INTERNET + Bar Association Demands Global Internet Laws US legal organization the American bar association (ABA) has called for a global internet commission to build a solid legal structure for businesses and customers processing e-commerce tr

Re: [IFWP] US DoC response to Tom Bliley

1999-07-10 Thread Kerry Miller
> Anybody interested in domain name policy issues should read > it at: > > http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/blileyrsp.htm > What a cautionary tale! The Policy-wonks and the Commercial- wallahs *combined take on the Techno-nerds and fall on their face! Throughout the doc (and consi

[IFWP] US DoC response to Tom Bliley

1999-07-09 Thread Onno Hovers
Today the responses of both ICANN and the DoC to Tom Bliley's became public. The responses of the ICANN do not contain much new information, but the responses of the DoC do. For the first time, the NTIA talks about the way it feels about NSI and ICANN. Anybody interested in domain name policy is

Re: [IFWP] .US domain hearings

1999-03-13 Thread Michael Sondow
Antony Van Couvering wrote: > > Rob Hall from CIRA talked about how the Canadians had > handled their domain, ... > You can have a look at the as-yet-unfinished > CIRA work at http://www.cira.ca. The CDNCC final document, which is available at http://www.canarie.ca/cdncc/finalreport.html, is

Re: [IFWP] .US domain hearings

1999-03-10 Thread jeff Williams
Tony and all,   Let's face the facts here regarding the .US ccTLD.  It is a blatant attempt to get a semiprivate corporation a cart blanch at capitalizing on control of a TLD.  This would seem in contrast to what the ICANN has publicly stated to not be in favor of.  I would wonder how the ICANN v

Re: [IFWP] .US domain hearings

1999-03-10 Thread A.M. Rutkowski
Antony, Good summary. There's a poorly reported article on the .US ccTLD hearing yesterday at NTIA at http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18371.html. For one thing, the Postal Service rep is misidentified (the name he used was on the agenda, You might also want to check out Jeri's pie

[IFWP] .US domain hearings

1999-03-10 Thread Antony Van Couvering
Hi everyone, There's a poorly reported article on the .US ccTLD hearing yesterday at NTIA at http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18371.html. For one thing, the Postal Service rep is misidentified (the name he used was on the agenda, but they switched). The U.S. Postal Service, while i