-----Original Message----- From: Kent Crispin <kent at SONGBIRD.COM> <snip>
When you start a business, you may choose from one of many TLDs. You can choose a ccTLD (which, I might note, nobody is calling monopolies. Funny, that).
ccTLDs *are* monopolies, but they are controlled by governments. [In fact, a reasonable definition of a government is an entity with a monopoly on force.]
Kent, It might be useful if you refresh everyone's memory about who your employer is. Are you still employed by the U.S. Government ? As for the so-called ccTLDs. Numerous examples have been cited to show that your above statement is not true. Two of the more high-profile examples are the .MQ and .GP TLDs, as well as the .FR TLD. It is now becoming clear that France does not control those TLDs. Sure, the French government wrote a paper about them, but people are thumbing their noses at the French government. Those TLDs remain. The flip side of this is the U.S. Government is trying to control .COM. People are thumbing their noses at that. If you had not noticed, there is a pattern here. TLDs are TLDs are TLDs. The people that control them all act the same way. Governments seem to have little or no impact. What use is it to continue to try to continue the myth that governments have control of the ccTLDs ? Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com 0:201 .COM http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt End-2-End: VPC(Java)--<IPv4>--C+ at ---<IPv8>---C+ at --<IPv4>--(Java)VPC http://www.ddj.com/index/author/idx10133.htm -------- Logged at Fri Oct 2 22:12:57 MET DST 1998 ---------