[NCUC-DISCUSS] FYI This case is moving forward

[Joly MacFie]

Hey that's my vid on there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cpx3FqCtMM

I thought I heard him once say that he sued ICANN after the 2000 round and
lost?

http://youtu.be/TA1pLg1eM6A?t=1h11m51s





On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 7:02 PM, DeeDee Halleck <deedeehalleck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://rally.org/namespace
>
> "*The city has recently been selling off .nyc addresses, even though
> Garrin repeatedly has explained that he created the .nyc top-level domain
> name — and .sex, .chat, .art and many, many more — as early as 1996*."
>
> *From The Villager Blog:*
> *Dot means war!**Paul Garrin*, of name.space, is fighting back. The city
> has recently been selling off .nyc addresses, even though Garrin repeatedly
> has explained that he created the .nyc top-level domain name — and .sex,
> .chat, .art and many, many more — as early as 1996. He’s been operating all
> of them on “alternate root,” outside of the main Internet that we all use,
> because the powers that be, a.k.a. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned
> Names and Numbers), won’t let him into the “main root.” Now that the
> options of Internet suffix possibilities are finally being expanded, the
> East Village tech pioneer isn’t willing to give up what’s his. And why
> should he? He’s working to raise $75,000 for his lawsuit in federal court
> against ICANN. As part of his plan to sell .nyc addresses, profits would be
> funneled back into social-justice causes, like equipping schools with
> laptops or buying back the old P.S. 64 / CHARAS and restoring it as a
> community center. (Oh well, it may be too late for that last one,
> unfortunately.) You can help Garrin by donating at rally.org/namespace.
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