> Jim Dixon writes:
> > Talk about how to conduct experiment with monopoly registries. Talk
> > about how to set things up so that if a monopoly registry goes bad
> > it is possible to recover from it.
>
> We've conducted the monopoly experiment.
No you haven't.
> NSI cut off piermont.com early this week for 24 hours. I'd already
> paid several times, but I paid again. After all, it was that or lose
> business. I know many other companies that have done the same.
>
> Do we have to conduct this experiment again? Frankly, I'd rather not.
I do not support NSI in any way. But your personal bad experience
with NSI, like my personal bad experience with NSI, is irrelevant.
NSI was not set up as a small controlled experiment. It was given
the whole thing, all of the existing non-country code TLDs, with
no significant oversight and no recovery path.
-- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015