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Here's how NSI got their "evidence" of "slamming": They got a market research firm to do a survey of registrants whose domains had transferred away from NSI and found that 24% of them did not believe they had authorized the transfer of their domains.

This number is actually remarkably low (I am amazed that 76% of registrants are actually savvy and involved enough to know which registrar their domain is with and why) -- many people have all this stuff handled by their service provider and don't want to hear about it. That 24% can easily be accounted for by hosts/ISP's who switched registrars and took with them all the domains they managed.

The letter is to be signed by service providers who have done this http://www.userfriendly.com/transferletter.html -- by the way, http://www.userfriendly.com is a great domain search tool (no affiliatation -- in fact, I'm a competitor)

Here's how NSI got their "evidence" of "slamming": They got a market research firm to do a survey of registrants whose domains had transferred away from NSI and found that 24% of them did not believe they had authorized the transfer of their domains.

This number is actually remarkably low (I am amazed that 76% of registrants are actually savvy and involved enough to know which registrar their domain is with and why) -- many people have all this stuff handled by their service provider and don't want to hear about it. That 24% can easily be accounted for by hosts/ISP's who switched registrars and took with them all the domains they managed.

The letter is to be signed by service providers who have done this http://www.userfriendly.com/transferletter.html -- by the way, http://www.userfriendly.com is a great domain search tool (no affiliatation -- in fact, I'm a competitor)

Here's how NSI got their "evidence" of "slamming": They got a market research firm to do a survey of registrants whose domains had transferred away from NSI and found that 24% of them did not believe they had authorized the transfer of their domains.

This number is actually remarkably low (I am amazed that 76% of registrants are actually savvy and involved enough to know which registrar their domain is with and why) -- many people have all this stuff handled by their service provider and don't want to hear about it. That 24% can easily be accounted for by hosts/ISP's who switched registrars and took with them all the domains they managed.

The letter is to be signed by service providers who have done this http://www.userfriendly.com/transferletter.html -- by the way, http://www.userfriendly.com is a great domain search tool (no affiliatation -- in fact, I'm a competitor)

The domain resellers in competition with Network Solutions are understandably unhappy, as reported in this article at Internet News. If you're not pleased either, you can sign this letter by e-mailing your name, e-mail address, and company affiliation to william@userfriendly.com. (No relation I can see to www.userfriendly.org.)

The domain resellers in competition with Network Solutions are understandably unhappy, as reported in this article at Internet News. If you're not pleased either, you can sign this letter by e-mailing your name, e-mail address, and company affiliation to william@userfriendly.com. (No relation I can see to www.userfriendly.org.)

EasyHosting sells (rents? :D) domains for $15CA per year. They use the OpenSRS system. Updates to the OpenSRS database are immediate, and as far as I can tell, fairly quick to NetSols main WHOIS database. userfriendly.com has a nice, simple OpenSRS login page to edit all aspects of your domain records as well.

If it wasn't such a hassle, I'd transfer my two NetSol-registered domains over, but I'll just wait and re-register with a OpenSRS reseller.

The IDNO is FAR FAR away from ever being considered as a constituency by ICANN. It is not democratic, it has absolutely no cohesion, and it is not representative of the group it purports to be a constituency for.

I am not just a simple detractor. I was one of the founding members, betrayed by the ego of the founder who abused our trust to create a bully pulpit for his own views, rather than a really open place for domain owners to be represented.

If it doesn't fit his view of what is right for domain owners, it doesn't get included in the IDNO agenda. Plain and simple. Until this changes, the IDNO is not a legitimate effort, and I do not encourage people to join it.

A few of us fed up members have talked about a truly open IDNO, with an open sourced polling booth with auditing tools of the results, and with a structure that works for all the members, and doesn't let anyone one person's personality or agenda dominate. If you are interested in being a part of this, please email me.

I think the difference is that most of the best comics these days are being put up on the web, and the artists aren't getting paid for it (at least not much...)

See Goats, Sluggy Freelance, User Friendly (though that one's not restricted to the web..)

there are a lot of other "hobby" strips out there - ComicSites lists bajillions of them.

Of course, I miss Bloom County, Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, the Far Side..... But so do we all..

Well...why doesn't that half baked operating system get a real file system... then maybe they wouldn't need to defrag the bloody thing.


-- check out todays user friendly comic strip..it's a scream.
User Friendly

I couldn't agree with you more.
What can we do? Is it that current times will
force linux users and consumers to take
it up the ass if a corperation is big enough?
Does it mean that small free web sites that deliever orignal content
with large followings will be forced to just quit and give up domains
if any sizeable company with money wants the domain?

In recent times we've seen stories on here of
companies demanding web sites because the domain
was a trademark violation even though the site
had existed well before the creation of the
demanding business.

We've also seen the trademarking of just plain old
stupid shit. I'm waiting for a patent on eating
and a trademark on words like cheeseburger (so
you can no longer use the word eating and will be
liable for a lawsuit if you put cheeseburger on a menu).

So. What Am I Rambling About? This wonderful
captilist economy we (US citizens) live in is
great for the goings-on of real life, but is not
ready to handle a free self ruled internet and
will, as long as it runs unchecked, try to apply
US rules of business to a medium never meant for business.

-Z

suggestion: move UF and SegFault to a server in the netherlands or other country not subject to US laws.