Re: [ga] Why ALAC lacks legitimacy

[George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

--- Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 11:47  PM, Jeff Williams wrote:
> > And I would
> > add that Adventure.com is hardly a "Big Business", now is it???
> 
> It's edventure.com , Cybersquatting on the domain, I believe, since 
> it's a registered TM.
> 
> Bad faith?

Hardly, as it's the name of her company EDventure (with "ED" = initials
of Esther Dyson). Not the greatest name for a business, but I've seen
worse (and some say mine sucks too!). :)

She was at least on the right side of the Sitefinder issue, see:

http://www.edventure.com/conversation/article.cfm?Counter=760040

VeriSign is now trying to play their political and PR games, ignoring
the community, and ICANN insiders continue pussy-footing around instead
of acting decisively. Thus, we have lots of unneeded drama.

The decisive solution, which I recommended a long time ago, is to move
for a consensus vote that NXDOMAIN be the standard and mandatory
response code for non-existent domain names for gTLDs. Period. VeriSign
and other abusers can't wiggle around a statement like that. See:

http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00295.html

dated September 9th, which was BEFORE Sitefinder launched. While ICANN
staffers sat on their butts for weeks, or doing other non-productive
tasks (would love to see what ICANN felt they "accomplished" last month
-- with the huge staff increases, not much is visible), they caused
chaos and internet trust to be undermined through inaction. Leaders
need to *lead* (shocking, I know!), and not just be firefighters. Part
of leadership is taking pre-emptive action, instead of just waiting for
emergency situations to develop.

To Twomey and his cohorts: "Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy,
or are you gonna bite?" 

In particular, it's time to insist that VeriSign pay back all the
audited GROSS revenues produced by SiteFinder, as was demanded in the
petition at http://www.whois.sc/verisign-dns/ .

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.kirikos.com/

P.S. On the funny side, VeriSign's ad for Games.tv, mentioned in my
September 9th post, is now gone. It looks like VeriSign has removed the
Wildcard from .tv. :) (although, it's still in .cc)