A couple of days ago I got mail from Andrew Mason, a consultant acting for Domainz, who posed a set of questions to me about Netlink's readiness to adopt the new system. I have answered that noting a number of reservations including lack of whois server to enable easy checking of existing records and the apparent lack of consensus among many of the industry players about how things should be done. I'm trying to gauge who is happy with the *technical* interface. (I know that many are unhappy with the politico-commercial position.) If everyone else is ecstatically happy I'll accept the judgement of my peers and get on with things, do without the long promised whois server and check all my domains using the web interface. If however you are unhappy about how things are progressing let's put our heads together and go back to ISOCNZ with an open letter requesting them to ensure that Domainz starts acting as a public service organisation and not as a business solely focussed on making money and using its monopoly postion to dictate to the NZ Internet community. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog