Re: [ga] Kamusi.com Domain

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all,

  Fully agreed, which is why I called for the DOJ to do an in depth
investigation and do it soon.  IF missmanagment of a public resource
such as a SLD or a TLD is allowed to continue based on very narrow
technical means, ability, or opertunity, than it should not stand.  As
Lincoln said, "a house divided against itself, cannot stand".  Much of
this IMO is due to poor RAA's and little if any oversight by ICANN,
of for that matter, by DOC/NTIA.  Accountability is lacking here,
and has been for nearly a decade now.  That's NOT exceptable!

"Karl E. Peters" wrote:

>  Jeffrey and all,    It is hardly my job to defend GoDaddy or the
> private domain people, but I must, in the interest of fairness suggest
> the following supposition and see if that too meets with the same
> reaction here. (Keep in mind that I am opposed to private
> registrations of SLDs as much as TLDs.)    Suppose "Mr. X" registers
> kumasi.com in anticipatin that the people of kumasi.org would
> eventually look into having it, as well. (as they actually did)
> Perhaps Mr. X wanted to position himself to make a profit from the
> unsuspecting kumasi.org when their interest surfaced, but did not want
> to be known as a bottom feeder and thus registered it as a private
> registration with the understanding that inquiries about its purchase
> would be presented to them. (Of course, this all could be a giant
> scheme by GoDaddy to hold and sell millions of high priced domains,
> but it does not have to be and may not be. There are millions of
> opportunists in the world that would be cometeting with them.)
> Let's accuse on facts and not on suppositions!!! This is an issue that
> warants investigation, but no one should be convicted before the
> investigation takes place. -Karl E. Peters
>
>      -------- Original Message --------
>      Subject: Re: [ga] Kamusi.com Domain
>      From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>      Date: Fri, January 23, 2009 12:23 am
>      To: "Karl E. Peters" <tlda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Ruiz
>      <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>      Cc: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Peretti, Kimberly Kiefer"
>      <Kimberly.Peretti@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>      Karl and all,
>
>      No raind here. It's as dry as a bone. >:) It is VERY clear
>      what
>      GoDaddy is doing. It MAY not be illegal, but IS certainly
>      not
>      ethical, and in that vain as you say, bottom feeding. But
>      perhaps
>      you should make yourself aware of the law regading deceptive
>      business
>      practices before making a judgment on legality. I believe
>      this at least
>
>      warrents a in depth investigation by DOJ. And I believe that
>      eventually
>
>      such a proper investigation will be conducted by same...
>      Better sooner
>      than later, but eventually regardless...
>
>      I have no problem what so ever with private domains. I
>      embrace them.
>      I do have a problem with bulk domain name selling under the
>      seeming
>      guise
>      of a privacy service that is not there to protect a Domain
>      Name holder,
>      as much as it is to do Domain Name speculation in perhaps a
>      cybersquatting
>      manner. And again, America, as well as most of the rest of
>      the world,
>      can no longer afford, nor should abide or allow for this
>      sort of
>      business
>      practice. To put it another way, if Godaddy was an airline,
>      and lost
>      both
>      engines, everyone without Godaddy's service with their
>      prefered privacy
>      provider, would be Rosa Parks...
>
>      "Karl E. Peters" wrote:
>
>      > Not to rain on anyone's parade, but has anyone read their
>      policies to
>      > see if they are allowed to bring cash offers to their
>      Privacy clients
>      > as a part of the deal. Many, like someone who would bother
>      to register
>      > kamusi.com may very well want to hide behind such a veil
>      and wait for
>      > high profit opportunities brought them through these
>      arrangements.
>      > Don't get me wrong, I believe this to be sad and a form of
>      bottom
>      > fishing like the rest of you, but read the policy these
>      people signed
>      > on to before making too many blind judgements about
>      company ethics.
>      > One of the few things worse than doing wrong is to wrongly
>      accuse
>      > someone of doing wrong and paint them unfairly.
>      Personally, I don't
>      > even like the concept of private domains for the reasons
>      above, and
>      > others, but it is not illegal, yet...
>      > -Karl E. Peters
>      >
>      >
>      >
>
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