Dean and all, Dean Robb wrote: > At 03:55 PM 4/9/99 -0600, Carl Oppedahl wrote: > >But note that NSI slipped in something that the US government may not have > >noticed. After 90 seconds, it jumps directly to Network Solutions' own > >page, just as it did last week. So it still uses the Internic trademark, > >owned by the US government, to promote NSI to the exclusion of its > >competitors. It just takes 90 seconds instead of happening instantly. > > I dropped a line to Ms. Burr at NTIA about that redirect. They *do* appear > to listen to us up there, as the neutral site resurrection idea was put > forth on this list and forward to NTIA by myself and (presumably) others. > > >And note that even the "neutral" page that is visible for 90 seconds also > >advertises NSI, because the URL that is used for that 90 seconds contains > >the networksolutions.com domain name rather than the internic.net domain > name. > > This I can live with (albeit NOT the redirect) because NSI was, in fact, > registering everything anyway; just under two names, InterNIC and NSI. If > anything, this is *some* truth in advertising. Again DUH! I have been trying to tell you this for since the time NSI effected the redirect, and rightly so. However you head seemed to be so far up your posterior, that it rendered you either deaf, of imposed as condition of seeing things with a rather brown tint to it... > > > Hopefully, as the new registrars enter the game, all of them will have > links on this page. I doubt this, and hope not as well. > Then the fight can be over who gets the top spot > because it will, by default, get the most usage. How hard would rotating > URL links be to implement, if possible at all? Yet another childish musing... > > > "Small minds can only contemplate small ideas".....Unknown > > Dean Robb > Owner, PC-EASY > (757) 495-EASY [3279] > On-site computer repair, upgrades and consultations > Read my game reviews/columns in SimOps on WWW.TheGamers.Net > Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
