http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2007/07/01/aging_the_internet_prematurely_one_pdp_at_a_time.html Musings of a techie lawyer Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:24:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-bleeding http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2007/07/01/aging_the_internet_prematurely_one_pdp_at_a_time.html#comment-728 Patrick Jones Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:12:19 +0000 http://wendy.seltzer.org/wordpress/?p=431#comment-728 Wendy, your statement that ICANN must be willing to let new TLDs fail isn't too far off from what we have in the registry failure report: <a href="http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-01jun07.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-01jun07.htm</a> and <a href="http://www.icann.org/registries/reports/registry-failover-01jun07.htm." rel="nofollow">http://www.icann.org/registries/reports/registry-failover-01jun07.htm.</a> This topic was covered in the Protections for Registrants Workshop during the San Juan meeting. "Escrow, clear consumer information, streamlined processes, and flexible responses to the expected unanticipated" are exactly what we're trying to have in place. Wendy, your statement that ICANN must be willing to let new TLDs fail isn’t too far off from what we have in the registry failure report: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-01jun07.htm and http://www.icann.org/registries/reports/registry-failover-01jun07.htm. This topic was covered in the Protections for Registrants Workshop during the San Juan meeting. “Escrow, clear consumer information, streamlined processes, and flexible responses to the expected unanticipated” are exactly what we’re trying to have in place.

]]> http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2007/07/01/aging_the_internet_prematurely_one_pdp_at_a_time.html#comment-727 Ivan Pope Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:26:28 +0000 http://wendy.seltzer.org/wordpress/?p=431#comment-727 As an historic participant in the domain name wars of the nineties, I heartily agree with what you say. But the DNS was captured a long time ago by an alliance between Network Solutions and governmental interests and they aint gonna let it go. As an historic participant in the domain name wars of the nineties, I heartily agree with what you say. But the DNS was captured a long time ago by an alliance between Network Solutions and governmental interests and they aint gonna let it go.

]]> http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2007/07/01/aging_the_internet_prematurely_one_pdp_at_a_time.html#comment-726 Alan Clifford Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:17:33 +0000 http://wendy.seltzer.org/wordpress/?p=431#comment-726 With the existing model, it would be nice if I could have clifford.eu. Can I have it? No? Is it because the reverend Alan Clifford in Norwich has it? No. Is it because another namesake, Alan Clifford, the BBC broadcaster in Nottingham has it? No. It is because it has been registered by Direct Electronics Inc which appears to be an American company. I wouldn't even mind this except that neither clifford.eu nor www.clifford.eu appears in DNS. So an American company is stopping me, an EU citizen, from obtaining the domain name I want, apparently not using it, and this is with the connivence of the registry authorised by the European commission. The whole thing stinks. With the existing model, it would be nice if I could have clifford.eu. Can I have it? No? Is it because the reverend Alan Clifford in Norwich has it? No. Is it because another namesake, Alan Clifford, the BBC broadcaster in Nottingham has it? No. It is because it has been registered by Direct Electronics Inc which appears to be an American company. I wouldn’t even mind this except that neither clifford.eu nor http://www.clifford.eu appears in DNS. So an American company is stopping me, an EU citizen, from obtaining the domain name I want, apparently not using it, and this is with the connivence of the registry authorised by the European commission. The whole thing stinks.

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