Unfortunately for the Internet community, NSI has made it clear that it
doesn't plan to yield any control over .COM to anyone else, ever:
Networks Solutions seemed more definite. "It is not our
intention to share .com or the others [domains] we
register," Network Solutions spokesman
Christopher Clough said. "Those would obviously [be]
assets that we've developed . . . much as Microsoft
wouldn't share DOS," its proprietary software.
Network Solutions favors competition, but only in the
registration of new types of domains, Clough said.
(Network Solutions Dropped as Registrar Of Internet
Domains, By David S. Hilzenrath, April 24 1997; The Washington Post.)
Thus, it seems likely that (barring a shift in control over .COM) NSI would
continue forever, carrying out its awful policy and putting innocent domain
name owners out of business.
The only way that innocent domain name owners will have the cloud of NSI's
awful domain name policy lifted from their heads is if indeed the control
over .COM shifts elsewhere. So far as I can see, the most likely way for
that to happen is if IAHC's plans move forward and are put into place.
Total nonsense.
The eDNS open market system solves this problem by allowing people to choose
the dispute resolution system which matches their preference.
Unfortunately for the Internet community, NSI has made it clear that it
doesn't plan to yield any control over .COM to anyone else, ever:
That's just the current management of NSI. They can be replaced.
Once the shareholders of NSI realize that there is more hay to be made by
cooperating with the IAHC and by getting back to Network Solutions' roots,
then this whole tempest in a teapot will evaporate.
Many people don't realize that NSI used to do a lot of consulting, network
integration, etc. And it seems that the shortsighted management at NSI
doesn't see that the IAHC is actually creating a market for both the
services and the software expertise that NSI has in regards to domain name
registries. If they don't wake up quickly and stop this silly political
grandstanding, the new registry companies will simply hire away all their
expert employees and NSI will have nothing left.
This is a technology industry and when you lose your key employees to a
competitor, you have problems. Political grandstanding, and PR
spin-doctoring does nothing to help retain skilled people as many a
technology company has learned in the past.
Thus, it seems likely that (barring a shift in control over .COM) NSI would
continue forever, carrying out its awful policy and putting innocent domain
name owners out of business.
Smart domain name owners will simply move out of .COM and use the
occasion of their domain name change to generate lots of PR attention for
themselves. Realistically though, NSI will be forced by competitive
pressures to modify their policies and bring them into line with the rest
of the commercial registries. The beauty of competition is that it affects
not only pricing, but all aspects of a companies business. In the face of
competition the only sane and viable strategy is to serve the customer and
this includes a domain name dispute policy that puts the customer first.
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
> Unfortunately for the Internet community, NSI has made it clear that it
> doesn't plan to yield any control over .COM to anyone else, ever:
That's just the current management of NSI. They can be replaced.
Once the shareholders of NSI realize that there is more hay to be made by
cooperating with the IAHC and by getting back to Network Solutions' roots,
then this whole tempest in a teapot will evaporate.
I would have thought that if NSI applied to be a registrar and won the
lottery, they would be a 900 pound gorilla compared to the 2-3 man
operations currently gearing up to be registrars. If I was management I
would see golden opportunities by having a bunch more gTLDs open up and
operations ready to handle 100,000 applications in a week. Even if I lost
- I could become an outsourcer for those that win - providing technical
consulting and backoffice operations support. If I was a stock holder
with SIAC I would be quite annoyed by now by their company losing out on a
potential golden egg that they have a leg up on.
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
[the views expressed above belong to the author and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the other IAHC members]