There was a dispute between the administrative contacts for this domain, and
the people who operate the physical server and control the domain and
registration services.
IANA has frozen this domain, pending a request to transfer control of this
domain made by the Administrative Contact for this domain. TJ Network Services
then suspended his email account one their server to impede his efforts to
revoke their contract. They are now trying to use a $38 bookkeeping
descrepancy (out of over $10,000 in billing that period) to accuse me of
misdeeds and discredit me because I backed the decisions of the Administrative
Contact, and blocked their attempts to exploit namespace that was supposed to be
reserved for internal use in Tajikistan only (certain second level domains that
had been reserved to offer third level names to Tajikistan residents for free).
It should also be noted that the billing service notified them of the fact that
it was a error and has corrected the error and put the $38 in the TJ Network
account. No money ever changed hands between me and anyone. And I have never
been dependent on TJ, having never received ANY payment for my services, and
indeed supporting TJ out of my own pocket for a number of months.
There is much more to this story, but I am only giving a review of it here.
IANA has faxed a document to the Administrative Contact for his signature that
will mostly result in the transfer of this domain away from the control of the
people now calling themselves TJ Network Services.
While I will not be the direct administrator of this domain even after the
transfer authorized by the Administrative Contact, I will be involved in a
purely technical capacity. The policies of the registry will most likely be
completely overhauled, but not in a way that will adversely affect current
domain holders.
As I said, this is a complex situation, and their email to customers was
nothing but an attempt to try and discredit me. However, being that they have
no support from the Administrative Contact, their claims that they will retain
control over this resource are quite premature.
Merry Christmas to All.
On 25-Dec-98 John B. Reynolds wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-discuss@dnso.org [mailto:owner-discuss@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
>> susancho
>> Sent: Thursday, 24 December 1998 17:46
>> To: discuss@dnso.org; list@ifwp.org
>> Subject: Important Report
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: TJ Network Services Directors <directors@tjns.tj>
>> Sent: Friday, December 25, 1998 2:56 AM
>> Subject: TJ Network Services - Update
>>
>>
>> |Dear customers,
>> |
>> |Please accept our sincere apologies for the recent DNS
>> |problems. One of the directors of TJ Network Services,
>> |William Walsh, was caught embezzling funds, and fraudulently
>> |misrepresenting us. He was removed from the company, and no
>> |longer has any affiliation with TJ Network Services
>> |whatsoever.
>
> < remainder snipped for brevity >
>
> I received the same message. (Why would they send it to me, you ask? Do a
> whois lookup on the domain "john-reynolds.com" to find out.) If you look at
> http://nic.tj or http://tjns.tj, you will see the following notice:
>
> News: Please note that William X Walsh is no longer affiliated with TJ
> Network Services or the TJ NIC.
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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <william@wxweb.qnis.net>
Date: 24-Dec-98
Time: 17:31:25
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