|
- Antony
Van Couvering, President
of the DNS registry NetNames
USA, is Chair of the Policy
Advisory Body (PAB) under the
gTLD-MoU. [FYI: Ivan Pope,
Managing Director of NetNames
Ltd. in London, was recently
"elected" to the Executive
Committee of the Council of
Registrars
(CORE).]
|
-
- Antony
Van Couvering
- President,
NetNames USA
- New
York, New York
- Chair,
Policy Advisory Body
- mailto:avc@netnamesusa.com
- Phone
Toll-free 888-NETNAMES
- Intl:
+1 212 627-4599
- (c)
1998 by Karl
Auerbach.
- Used
with permission.
|
|
|
|
For
two years, NetNames has doing nothing but
domain name registrations; for a long time
we were the only company to do so. Our
specialty is international registrations
in all country TLDs, but we are intimately
concerned with getting new gTLDs off the
ground.
We know that
millions of people around the world face
are governed by restrictive regimes whose
control of the national domain structure
could seriously hamper the promise of the
Internet as an empowering mechanism.
NetNames is
committed to open registration policies in
all domains, and we are committed to
making sure that everyone has access to
domain names. Accompanying evils of
cybersquatting and domain hoarding are not
small, but we believe that attempts to
police the domain space are fraught with
far greater dangers. For these reasons we
support the creation of new gTLDs under
the gTLD-MoU.
As far as Eugene
Kashpureff goes, we don't think he should
be locked up, or even tried. People have a
right to the profit and enjoyment of their
domain names, but Kashpureff did not
seriously threaten this. Given our
knowledge of the history of Eugene and his
enunciated principles, we think his
actions should be considered civil
disobedience more than anything else.
Network Solutions made its peace with him;
why is the US government getting involved?
|
.
