new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play

Tue Mar 6 16:47:28 UTC 2001

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Brian Wallingford wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> 
> :
> :On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> :
> :> 
> :> [ this came from http://www.new.net/about_us_press.tp and appears not to be
> :>   a joke.  its operational impact will not be felt today, but if it's even
> :>   moderately popular before it dies, operational impact WILL be felt.  i'm
> :>   quite surprised by some of the folks they list as their partners.  --vix ]
> :
> :Too bad ICANN has been such a complete and utter failure that an
> :organization felt it necessary to start such a business, huh?
> 
> Sounds like this was driven more by carelessness and greed than by
> necessity.

While I agree that the implementation leaves something to be desired, this
appears to be driven by pent-up market demand. Apparently this equates to
greed in your book. *shrug*