RE: [cobalt-developers] (no subject)

["Will Eberle" <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This reply seems to suggest the REAL registry is responsible for the
problems of the upstart fastbuck artists. How many clients have we all had
who wouldn't listen and get a real Network Solutions TLD (Top Level Domain)
domain name a few years ago when many names were still available? Add the
gullibility of people who believe the ads of the "replacement registries"
and the real problem quickly becomes apparent. One off-brand registrar
typically inserts its own name into all the slots (registrant,
administrative contact, technical contact and billing contact), effectively
leaving the person using the name as a lessee with no ability to change
anything. Don't even try to reach their customer service depts. I once spent
a fruitless month trying to resolve just such a situation. I won't even get
into the further difficulties of a technically illiterate administrative
contact having an AOL email address and the hell of attempting to change DNS
addresses.

In my own consultancy, we typically do not support either AOL-addressed
clients or non-TLDs for businesses unless we deal with these issues strictly
on an hourly basis.

Will Eberle
The Wiz Biz
wiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kingsly John
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 8:48 PM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] (no subject)

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Jeff Lasman wrote:

 |David Thurman wrote:
 |
 |> This isn't one of those domains that is under that other company is it?
 |> If it is an "approved" InterNic domain you shouldn't have any problem.
If it
 |> is from that other company, you have to do some changes, I remember
seeing
 |> people on the list talking about this way back. I would do a search for
the
 |> .shop and .biz domains on the users list.
 |
 |There's nothing at all you can do to make new.net domains visible to
 |anyone who doesn't by default use YOUR server for DNS.  In other words,
 |most of the world.

I was trying out some of the alternate domains/DNS stuff... and ran into
this other problem... though my machine was able to resolve those DNS and
things... my ISP is routing all http traffic through some netcache
device... and that thing is still *dumb* and it can't resolve those
sites... so I still can't view those sites.

So until ICANN's monopoly over the Internet ends... and an really *open*
Domain registry and DNS system is in place... there's not much scope for
non-ICANN approved domain names.

Sad that in an open place like the internet... we still have a government
organisation like ICANN who *controls* the place.

Kingsly

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