Re: [ga] Press Release Warns Internet Users about ICANN

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

John,

I would like daily access to the zone files for the TLDs you are laing
claim to.

please let me know how to get them. this is the 3rd time I have asked OSRC
folks how to get thier zones. at least NSI provides a method that anyone
can get them.

so, are you open or does the "O" in ORSC stand for obfuscatory.

-rick


On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, John Palmer wrote:

> ON THE EVE OF YOKOHAMA - A RADIO AD CAMPAIGN WARNING INTERNET 
> USERS ABOUT THE DAMAGE THAT ICANN WILL DO IF IT STAYS ON ITS 
> PRESENT COURSE
> 
> CHICAGO, July 5, 2000 /BusinessWire/
> 
> AGN Domain Name Service, Inc (ADNS - http://www.adns.net) today announce 
> that it will be launching a radio ad campaign to educate users about 
> ICANN and the changes that may be coming to the internet as a result of 
> ICANN's policies.
> 
> ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - the 
> organization that is attempting to make policy on the future of the internet. 
> ICANN is holding a conference in Yokohama, Japan on July 13 - 17 and may vote 
> on new domain policy at that time.
> 
> John Palmer,  president and CEO of ADNS warns all internet users to watch the 
> developments carefully. "Changes are coming to the internet and they aren't 
> all good", Palmer said. "Special interests have hijacked the process and are 
> influencing policy in a way that will be bad for internet users and especially 
> domain holders". Palmer cites the heavy influence of the World Intellectual 
> Property Organization (WIPO) as an example. "WIPO wants registrars to be burdened 
> with the task of trademark policemen - a task that belongs in the courts, not 
> on the backs of registrars, many of the small businesses with limited resources".
> 
> Another seemingly contradictory stand that ICANN is taking is their refusal to 
> recognize the intellectual property rights of Top-Level Domain (TLD) owners. 
> "ICANN seems to be interested in the protection of intellectual property, but 
> refuses to recognize the ownership of  TLDs by those who claimed them via the 
> legitimate service mark process, such as ADNS did with EARTH, USA and Z.", 
> Palmer said. He says that the biggest threat to domain name holders however, 
> is that the ICANN process would attempt to have domain holders sign away their 
> rights to use the courts to resolve disputes regarding domain ownership.
>  
> Palmer is not opposed to the concept of ICANN. "The concept of an organization 
> permanently assigned to govern the few aspects of the internet that require 
> oversight is a good one, however this particular process has gone horribly wrong 
> and permanent damage to the Internet will occur if it is not stopped and fixed".
> 
> The radio ad campaign which will air continuously on several nationally syndicated 
> shows will begin later this week and will run for about 10 days. It will inform 
> users about ICANN and will point them to a website that contains more detailed 
> information. One of the solutions suggested is for ISPs and internet users to 
> point their machines away from the root servers operated by ICANN and to 
> alternative providers who are not under ICANN's control. Instructions for doing 
> this are available at various websites, including that of ADNS.
> 
> Palmer also announced today that ADNS's  root nameserver, ASLAN, a member 
> of the Open Root Server Consortium, received 763,311 hits in June - an 
> increase of over 40% over May. 
> 
> "Registrations of domains ending in EARTH, USA and Z are also up to several 
> thousand domain names. We have really seen a growth in  registrations in the 
> past month due to our educational campaign", said Palmer. "What's more important 
> is that people are switching to other root server networks in large numbers, 
> showing that they do take notice and are concerned about ICANN".
> 
> ADNS owns the three top-level domains "EARTH", "USA" and "Z" and provides internet 
> sites with the ability to register a domain under these top-level domains. ADNS 
> has been providing internet related services since 1993.
> 
> Each month, ADNS will offer free registration, web hosting service and domain 
> service for those registering a domain in a specific part of the EARTH, USA or 
> Z hierarchy, provided that they promise to develop public content under that domain name. 
> This month, anyone who registers a domain which ends in MISSISSIPPI.USA on July 10th 
> between 4am and 5 am Eastern Time will receive free registration, DNS and web hosting 
> services for one year.
> 
> ADNS is part of the Open Root Server Consortium (ORSC - http://www.open-rsc.org ), 
> a group of individuals and organizations who are all interested in an open, fair 
> and technically sound global Domain Name System for the internet. ADNS is providing 
> ASLAN free of charge for the use of the internet community. 
> 
> ADNS  also operates the  internet portal site called http://The.EARTH. 
> This site is accessible to any computer that is pointing to the new DNS servers. 
> 
> SOURCE: AGN Domain Name Service, Inc. 
> 
> CONTACT: John Palmer, jp@adns.net /  312-849-2753
> 

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