Now I see why the Chinese routinely kill their own people and others, routinely lie to their own people and the rest of the world....they must be of the same paranoid stock as you. Nowhere did the previous poster say anything racist, but your screaming diatribe attacks him simply for posting his views. But at least in this country, a diversity of opinion is tolerated....as opposed to your native land where you would probably become the next unwilling kidney donor. Get real.
Nor did I pay Microsoft $199 to only "rent" some of their software, but unfortunately that is the case nowadays with Software licenses. They still own the license, and if I want to sell the program, I have to get their permission.
Uhhh for the rest of the world, the fee is $70 at InterNIC\Network Solutions. Is now, always has been, probably will be for a while. *poof* and his imaginary gallon of gasoline then disappeared into the ether.
What you, and they fail to point out is that Assensio (the analyst), makes a living off of shorting stocks. He has pulled this maneuver many times before on other companies. He shorts a stock that he has targeted, puts out a negative press release, then reaps the profits when the stock falls. If you all applied the same scrutiny to shams like this as you do to your bias against NSI, you'd have found this out.
I'm not going to waste time here arguing on this...you need to do some research dude. You clearly are confused and are up to speed on the situation.......as of about 2 years ago.
NSI wanted to reduce the database mining, so they try to make it harder for people to use WHOIS by consolidating InterNIC and NetworkSolutions web sites, then claim that the database is "proprietary". People respond by saying "hey this is public information, everyone should have access."
So everyone has access, and people complain because they get spammed. The double standard works both ways. Some complain no matter which way rules the day.
Yeah, Who needs damned highways, clogged with all those bureaucratic, suit friendly people monopolizing the roads. Lets take to the trails! And screw the damn phone lines run by money hungry executives. Leaves and smoke signals, here I come. Electricity - more money grubbers. I got a couple of oxen I could hitch up to run in circles and grind up the corn.....ad infinitum...
WOW, a little overstated don't you think. They do something as simple as redesign their website and entire lists are devoted to pointing our their "gall" for doing so and poking fun at the new colors and icons and how they are now selling t-shirts etc...What makes you think that they could get away with ever flexing that muscle you ascribe them to have?
I don't think they're quite the power-hungry, world dominating Microsloftians clone you think them to be.
Then his point still stands. The geeks should continue using the old tired IPv4 Internet1 while mega corporations and bandwidth hungry AOL'ers will migrate to the new net on steroids....netroid. Sounds like a perfect compromise, and all the edu's will get their old stomping grounds back...
Good post, but I think you are confused over the relationship of InterNIC to NSI. Lets see...InterNIC is just a name...a old reference to a gang of people working for a consortium, providing registration services to the government. That went away a long time ago. The InterNIC site stayed, the people and division went away. InterNIC=NSI, NSI=InterNIC...got it?
There was no hijacking here. It was one company trying to consolidate its brand into one focused message (and why not with competition coming up), and trying to put a stop to abusers who were bringing their systems to its knees. I'm really having a hard time understanding what these guys did that was so wrong..please someone fill me in.
The reason the database servers are (were) so slow was because there were a few heavy abusers of the system that were hitting them real hard with tons of requests meant to pull down the entire directory. Instead of aiming your anger at NSI for something they had to be careful about limiting, you should be aiming it at these people. So when NSI finally decides to start taking control of WHOIS to stop these abusers, you all complain. Either way they are fucked.
The ISP's are bringing them money...Why on earth would they want kill ISP's or compete against them by investing in the infrastructure, dealing with the hasssles, only to end up competing against the very ISP's who are bringing them tons of business....for free. Perhaps thats why they are running a pretty profitable business and you're stuck here posting meaningless rants about something you don't understand.
Christ dude, sometimes people search long and hard to find something to complain about only to find that there really is nothing there.
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Now I see why the Chinese routinely kill their own people and others, routinely lie to their own people and the rest of the world....they must be of the same paranoid stock as you. Nowhere did the previous poster say anything racist, but your screaming diatribe attacks him simply for posting his views. But at least in this country, a diversity of opinion is tolerated....as opposed to your native land where you would probably become the next unwilling kidney donor. Get real.
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Nor did I pay Microsoft $199 to only "rent" some of their software, but unfortunately that is the case nowadays with Software licenses. They still own the license, and if I want to sell the program, I have to get their permission.
God you all whine a lot.
And where pray tell did you get this information? Something you overheard in a chat room? How bout some facts folks.
You guys are on par with Pat Robertson and his wile-eyed millenium theories....wow, do I sense a huge amount of sarcasm or delusional ramblings??
Congratulations, you've "won" against NSI, only if your name is still available that is...
Price is same....
Pettiness smites all with its stupidity.
Uhhh for the rest of the world, the fee is $70 at InterNIC\Network Solutions. Is now, always has been, probably will be for a while. *poof* and his imaginary gallon of gasoline then disappeared into the ether.
What you, and they fail to point out is that Assensio (the analyst), makes a living off of shorting stocks. He has pulled this maneuver many times before on other companies. He shorts a stock that he has targeted, puts out a negative press release, then reaps the profits when the stock falls. If you all applied the same scrutiny to shams like this as you do to your bias against NSI, you'd have found this out.
I'm not going to waste time here arguing on this...you need to do some research dude. You clearly are confused and are up to speed on the situation.......as of about 2 years ago.
NSI wanted to reduce the database mining, so they try to make it harder for people to use WHOIS by consolidating InterNIC and NetworkSolutions web sites, then claim that the database is "proprietary". People respond by saying "hey this is public information, everyone should have access."
So everyone has access, and people complain because they get spammed. The double standard works both ways. Some complain no matter which way rules the day.
Yeah, Who needs damned highways, clogged with all those bureaucratic, suit friendly people monopolizing the roads. Lets take to the trails! And screw the damn phone lines run by money hungry executives. Leaves and smoke signals, here I come. Electricity - more money grubbers. I got a couple of oxen I could hitch up to run in circles and grind up the corn.....ad infinitum...
WOW, a little overstated don't you think. They do something as simple as redesign their website and entire lists are devoted to pointing our their "gall" for doing so and poking fun at the new colors and icons and how they are now selling t-shirts etc...What makes you think that they could get away with ever flexing that muscle you ascribe them to have?
I don't think they're quite the power-hungry, world dominating Microsloftians clone you think them to be.
Then his point still stands. The geeks should continue using the old tired IPv4 Internet1 while mega corporations and bandwidth hungry AOL'ers will migrate to the new net on steroids....netroid. Sounds like a perfect compromise, and all the edu's will get their old stomping grounds back...
What would you like to see? Every kid with a parents basement and a Linux box running a registry.... Lets get real here.
Good post, but I think you are confused over the relationship of InterNIC to NSI. Lets see...InterNIC is just a name...a old reference to a gang of people working for a consortium, providing registration services to the government. That went away a long time ago. The InterNIC site stayed, the people and division went away. InterNIC=NSI, NSI=InterNIC...got it?
There was no hijacking here. It was one company trying to consolidate its brand into one focused message (and why not with competition coming up), and trying to put a stop to abusers who were bringing their systems to its knees. I'm really having a hard time understanding what these guys did that was so wrong..please someone fill me in.
The reason the database servers are (were) so slow was because there were a few heavy abusers of the system that were hitting them real hard with tons of requests meant to pull down the entire directory. Instead of aiming your anger at NSI for something they had to be careful about limiting, you should be aiming it at these people. So when NSI finally decides to start taking control of WHOIS to stop these abusers, you all complain. Either way they are fucked.
How on earth would you police something like this?
The ISP's are bringing them money...Why on earth would they want kill ISP's or compete against them by investing in the infrastructure, dealing with the hasssles, only to end up competing against the very ISP's who are bringing them tons of business....for free. Perhaps thats why they are running a pretty profitable business and you're stuck here posting meaningless rants about something you don't understand.
Christ dude, sometimes people search long and hard to find something to complain about only to find that there really is nothing there.