[registrars] welcome to the end.

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@xxxxxx>]

we and ICANN are completely ineffective. Just about anyone involved in
Internet Infrastructure has told ICANN, VGRS and anyone else who would
listen how bad the idea to put a wildcard record in a TLD is.

VeriSign went on to do it besides all recommendations not to.

When we saw Paul Twome the other day I mentioned a word called "mission."
yes, ICANN has a mission and that is the technical over-site over the dot
(.) or root DNS infrastructure.

well now, it is completely obvious that ICANN will not or cannot perform
its mission.

from this point forward I will advocate a new forum for ICANN as this one
is not and will not work. today is just the proof of the pudding.

done.

-rick


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Bruce Tonkin wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> The .com lookup service implemented using the DNS protocol by Verisign
> on behalf of Internet users of domain names ending in .com is a core
> Internet service.  Only Verisign is able to offer this service through
> its contract with ICANN.
>
> It is very disappointing that:
>
> (1) Verisign did not raise this with registrars at our meeting in Marina
> Del Ray last week.
>
> (2) Verisign gave no notice period to the change in the operation of the
> service.  This will impact the installed base of software of many
> organisations.
>
> I would have thought that this would be treated as a "new" registry
> service in the same way as WLS is considered a new registry service,
> thus requiring approval from ICANN and the Dept of Commerce.
>
> A fairer way of implementing the service would be to allow organisations
> to register their own domain names that are mis-spellings of their own
> names, and have these redirected to a search/directory page of their
> choice - perhaps at a cheaper rate than the present $6.  Forcing all
> traffic to a single page operated by Verisign seems like an extension of
> their existing monopoly rights with respect to .com.
>
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin
>