-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 06-Jan-00 Mark Jeftovic wrote: > > They're revoking a group of domain names citing a dumbass reason that > only applies to a few of them. They say it's to clamp down on cybersquatting > because these names are passing off on trademarks. None of my domains > in this batch are passing off on anybody else's trademark and yet, > that's the reason that's going to be cited when they yank my domain names. > Woops, I completely missed this in my initial read: ICANN's president, Mike Roberts, said that the more than 800 revoked addresses violated a long-standing policy of Network Solutions Inc., which long held the monopoly on registering names, that prohibits any character but a numeral or letter at the end or beginning of a domain name. "It was a mistake in the software," Roberts said. "This was something that shouldn't have been possible." If they say *that* and only that as the reason for the revocation, I'll swallow it, as bad a taste as it leaves in my mouth. But then again, if they say that and pull them, then they should fix races.com and aolsearch.com while they're at it. - -mark - --- |||| mark jeftovic (MJ177) ==== http://stuntpope.cyberpunk.cc/ |||| |||| easyDNS Technologies Inc. ==== http://www.easyDNS.com/ |||| - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ dns hosting / domain registrations / web forwarding / mail forwarding / etc - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOHPvoDPrBBih4SmVAQH4pAP+OQwVdXLDsOJrYvMMJwKBqLnwBc5f0kTR FKGPTM8p/DWazDSGkn0T6uOtVRWD1mu7APAys9xz68V9cJ0PvZFMxQUfONc0ROG/ +X4FRhjXR0oFXD5eCqQmSRtfFQbp1NvIgVpsdqdo2dGs/tAi+2vzHjozRn6oQmtg +sJw3hDR9x4= =bmP4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
