Re: [ga] Text of Radio Ad which will start running nationwide on 7/7/2000

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 22:37 28.06.2000 -0400, Yingwei Wang wrote:
>Voting rules are important, we should talk about them, but we should talk
>about domain names, too. Did anyone suggest a proposal about domain names?

the reason to have voting rules is to be able to say something in an 
organized fashion about domain names. This is the *DNSO* GA, after all.

>Can anyone tell me why you think ADNS will not succeed?

My take on ADNS, and any other current "alternative" root, is that it will 
not succeed because nobody in his right mind will use a domain registered 
solely with them in the target address of anything that they hope to make 
money from; the customer base from any current .Z website is only the 
minuscule fraction of the Internet users that have retargeted their 
nameservers.

Cutting off 99.5% of your target audience is not something very many 
business people are particularly fond of.

That's why so many people who dislike ICANN so intensely haven't left the 
party yet - it's the organization controlling the *present* set of root 
nameservers.

                          Harald A


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Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no

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