Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN

Thu Jan 25 04:39:46 UTC 2001

> Sorry, Jim; I think it's not that much of a stretch.  They said that 
> (a) it's a DNS problem, (b) they don't understand the cause, but (c) 
> they don't manage the DNS, ICANN does.  OK -- the problem is 
> therefore 
> in a piece they don't manage, so they're not at fault.  But ICANN 
> *does* manage it (or so the direct quote says).  There's a decent 
> implication there that the manager is at fault, though not 
> (of course) 
> a direct statement.  I would also note that the article 
> quotes De Jonge 
> as saying "The *Internet's* Domain Name System (DNS) does 
> does not return
> the correct response when it is queried for a Microsoft Web site" 
> [emphasis added].  In other words, it's not *Microsoft's* DNS 
> servers, 
> it's the "Internet's".

You overlooked the prime facae error. ICANN most certainly does NOT manage
the DNS. The US Department of Commerce does. That's actually been proven in
court.