RE: .VI = Virgin Islands ?

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming@doorstep.unety.net>]

On Sunday, May 03, 1998 9:04 AM, Richard J. Sexton[SMTP:richard@SEXTON.COM] wrote:
@>@@@ http://www.zbvi.vi
@>
@>"ZBVI is the principal commercial and only "AM" radio station in the British Virgin Islands."
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@Waitta minute. NetNames site said "companies must use .co.vi".
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@Whats going on here?
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@I think if I paid thousands of dollars to NetNames to "protect my name"
@and they gave me, say netscape.co.vi, I'd be pretty annoyed if Microsoft
@(say) obtained netscape.vi and put MSIE there.
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@Good thing the "government sets policy" and NetNames's Antony Van Couvering
@stated.
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@.emacs anybody ?
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@Richard J. Sexton       |    Cheap ISDN + T1 feeds.
@richard@vrx.net         |    Creative domain names.
@VRx Network Services,   |    CGI/Database programmer.
@Toronto, Canada         |    Web design with an attitude.
@+1 (613) 473-1719       |    http://richard-resume.vrx.net
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As a web designer, you also have to be concerned.
If you can NOT get names in .VI but other companies
can, then you can not design web sites. Or...your
customers may be forced to get a domain name
via Netnames under co.vi and they may not want that.

Hank Nussbacher over in Israel (not Illinois), and a member
of the Blue Ribbon IAHC claims that this is all well-organized.
If you recall, he wrote...

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From: 	Hank Nussbacher[SMTP:hank@ibm.net.il]
Sent: 	Tuesday, April 28, 1998 2:46 AM
To: 	Jim Fleming; 'tld-wg@ripe.net'
Subject: 	Re: Should Two Letter TLDs Be Immune ?

At 03:20 PM 4/27/98 -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:

In your opinion?  Want to make a mess of nTLDs as has happened to gTLDs?
RFC1591 defines specific rules as to what is allowed or not allowed.

To quote:

3) The designated manager must be equitable to all groups in the
      domain that request domain names.

      This means that the same rules are applied to all requests, all
      requests must be processed in a non-discriminatory fashion, and
      academic and commercial (and other) users are treated on an equal
      basis.  No bias shall be shown regarding requests that may come
      from customers of some other business related to the manager --
      e.g., no preferential service for customers of a particular data
      network provider.  There can be no requirement that a particular
      mail system (or other application), protocol, or product be used.

4) Significantly interested parties in the domain should agree that
      the designated manager is the appropriate party.

      The IANA tries to have any contending parties reach agreement
      among themselves, and generally takes no action to change things
      unless all the contending parties agree; only in cases where the
      designated manager has substantially mis-behaved would the IANA
      step in.

      However, it is also appropriate for interested parties to have
      some voice in selecting the designated manager.

      There are two cases where the IANA and the central IR may
      establish a new top-level domain and delegate only a portion of
      it: (1) there are contending parties that cannot agree, or (2) the
      applying party may not be able to represent or serve the whole
      country.  The later case sometimes arises when a party outside a
      country is trying to be helpful in getting networking started in a
      country -- this is sometimes called a "proxy" DNS service.

      The Internet DNS Names Review Board (IDNB), a committee
      established by the IANA, will act as a review panel for cases in
      which the parties can not reach agreement among themselves.  The
      IDNB's decisions will be binding.
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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI

http://vi.caribnic.net