Fwd: "Domain Protection Racket" Promotion on Network Solutions Home Page

Mon Aug 29 08:23:27 CEST 2011

Thanks for sharing,

I wonder if others onlist were ever "forced subscribed" to the author's
lists. Below occured last year prompting me to speedily request him to
unsubscribe my email address.
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Date: Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:16 AM
To: gakuru at gmail.com

Greetings.  This is the initial announcements mailing list for Project IDONS
- Internet Distributed Open Name System.  If you receive this mailing, it
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From: *Alex Gakuru* <gakuru at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:57 AM
To: lauren at vortex.com, gakuru at gmail.com

Please remove my email from this mailing list since I never requested
to be subscribed. Thanks. Gakuru.
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From: *Lauren Weinstein* <lauren at vortex.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:59 AM
To: Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com>

Done.  Sorry about that.

--Lauren--

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From: *Alex Gakuru* <gakuru at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:09 AM
To: Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com>

appreciated.

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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Nicolas Adam <nickolas.adam at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> You'll notice the "Protect Your Brand", in the center. It's not as big as
> the criticism below make it to be but it's there.
>
> Would it be relevant and/or feasible to 'regulate' (read
> encourage/constrain ==> through types of means that i will leave open to
> discussion) the way registrar can market those new TLD?
>
> First, it doesn't look good.
>
> Second, while i don't think anybody (except perhaps established registrars)
> who are in favor of gTLD expansion have a clear view of what the emergent
> system of naming and names will or should be, i am pretty sure no-one so
> disposed would care to advocate that this system should establish itself
> mainly as a protection scheme.
>
> Is forcing advertising to depart with the protection rhetoric a step
> forward? Is it feasible?
>
> Just some thoughts.
>
> Nicolas
>
> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: [ NNSquad ] "Domain
> Protection Racket" Promotion on Network Solutions Home Page  Date: Sun, 28
> Aug 2011 12:42:23 -0700  From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com><lauren at vortex.com>  To:
> nnsquad at nnsquad.org
>
> "Domain Protection Racket" Promotion on Network Solutions Home Page
>
> This "in your face" promotion currently running on the Network
> Solutions home page clearly illustrates how the current top-level
> domains (gTLD) expansion plan is akin to a traditional "Sign up now or
> something bad might, uh, happen to you, buddy!" protection racket.
> http://j.mp/ofrzyv  (Lauren's Blog - Screen capture from networksolutions.com)
>
> As you can see, there is no concept of community service, social
> responsibility, or even real "value-added" benefits.  The promotion
> for two TLDs is explicitly about *protection* -- as in protecting
> yourself from someone else grabbing those domains and making you look
> bad, confusing your customers, and worse -- whether you have any real
> interest in those TLDs or not.
>
> And this is *only the beginning*, my friends.
>
> --Lauren--
> Lauren Weinstein (lauren at vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
> Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
> Founder:
>  - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
>  - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
>  - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
> Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
> Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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