At 22:13 17/09/2003 +1200, you wrote:
James Spooner wrote:
If whoever has a.geek.nz was selling domains under this suffix, would having a wildcard make them Evil, or simply excercising their rights as the owner of this domain?
Verisign owns .com and .net?
Which I think is the crux of the matter - who _owns_ these TLD's ? is it any one entity ? I think Andy pointed out quite rightly that this smacks so much of Anti Competitive behavior that it's not funny. The people that this was entrusted to are abusing the trust that was given to them by the Internet community as a whole, if they had actually bothered to _ask_ then it may not have been quite so bad, but they have just assumed that they have ownership of the TLD space and walked in and taken it. Imagine if InternetNZ were to do something similar, how would someone that wanted to get into this "market" be able to compete ? go and buy a country ? hmm.. I thought the last line on wired.com summed things up nicely.. "Right now, VeriSign's business is not a growing business, and anything that they do to add the slightest amount of growth is going to be positive," said Gene Munster, an analyst with U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. (http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60466,00.html) "We cant make money in our normal business - so we will abuse the trust people put in us and turn ourselves into a marketing company !" Wonder when they will start sending out spam :-) -- Steve.