NEWDOM: Re: Read this...Re: offtopic for NANOG - do not read

Sun Apr 27 05:57:51 UTC 1997

On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Carl Oppedahl wrote:
> 
> > 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 at memra.com
> 

Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
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