It's entirely possible to successfully have a competitor as client. I do
it all the time and have for years. People are shocked sometimes to learn
the level of access I have in some of my competitor's systems...I have
staff access at a few and was given root a couple of times before my
The problem here is with ICANN who openSRS has to live with. ICANN has
effectively distroyed and destabilized the registries - and that's a real
pity.
Regards
Joe Baptista
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Ken wrote:
Ross,
Thank you for your work, and all that openSRS is trying to do.
I realize that
In the world of PR, giveaways are a well established tradition. Throughout
the past 100 years, events have been held to exploit a situation or expand
public consciousness. From a page in PR history, John D. Rockefeller,
although a generous philanthropist, had earned a reputation a scrooge
It's not worth it.
Fior *free* you get your domain parked on their 2 nameservers, the twop
thet were hammered of the face of the internet, and it's $25 to add
one (or more) of your own. Other registrars cost less that $20.
Where is the savings here?
At 09:02 AM 3/24/00 -0800, Ellen Rony wrote:
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 18:54:45 -0800
From: Bill Gerrard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: registerfree.com
From the "tucows" mention in that error message Joe posted, I wonder if
they are using OpenSRS. If so, I bet they didn't
I'm addressing this message to opensrs, but copying relevant lists.
Registerfree.com today made an announcement there were some free domains
available.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/23/free.domain/index.html
Now - there were problems accessing, and the form is garbage, does not
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:05:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Ross Wm. Rader [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: !Dr. Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: registerfree.com
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:14:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Ross Wm. Rader [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: registerfree.com is overloading OpenSRS
Register Free is junk.
I sincerely hope Tucows isn't going to
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
Personal commment:
My apologies if my manner is somewhat abrasive, but quite frankly this
entire evening has been less than pleasurable and as far as I'm concerned,
would not have been an issue had NSI not dropped the ball with the
registry.
You know Ross - ICANN is nothing more then a bunch of money grubbers, if
you want to become a registrar and can afford the money to keep Michael
Roberts wine cellar well stocked, you get a registrars certificate.
Registrarfree is a shining example of how a bunch of money grubbers can
take the
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:19:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Ross Wm. Rader [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bill Gerrard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: registerfree.com is overloading OpenSRS
NSI Registry was formally offline from 7:15 through 8:30
When the Starr report ws released on the net, a warning was
issued on NANOG a day or two earlier.
Offering a dangling carrot like free domains is generally going
to result is a very large amount of traffic.
Indeed, for a lark I tried to call up www.registerfree.com
at 9:05. No DNS. I dpeculat
I think opensrs was slimed tonight - so far it looks like some bogus
company registerfree.com, an icann accredited registrar who does not
support their own RRP - but subcontracts it to OpenSRS - does this media
trip for free domains - the NSI's registry goes offline to openSRS,
everyone else so
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