selling out (was Re: [thelist] TLD's)

[Oliver Lineham]

At 13:20 30/06/00 +0930, you wrote:

>"WorldSite.WS is a privately-held company."

yeah, so is Melbourne IT

>Anyway, at least http://www.samoanic.ws/ does provide some Samoan 
>information, linking to http://www.samoa.co.nz to lure visitors.

..to New Zealand.  heh.

Why go sit in a grass hut, when you can sit in a grass hut with 2Mbps internet?

> > >Don't start a fight now - I'm only a few hours away by plane. ;)
> > Yeah, and the flights are cheaper than internal ones!
>Don't encourage me, wormboy! ;)

Okay.  So long as you're more trustworthy than your cricketers.

> > What crap?  Give examples of crap in other countries.  And how do you think
> > this crap has harmed that country's internet industry?
>Ease of cybersquatting.

Granted.

>  Registering a .com requires an email address.
>Registering a .com.au requires a registered business or company. 
>Registering a business or company requires a physical (not a PO Box, etc) 
>address. Makes it easier to track domain owners for legal purposes.

What legal purposes?  So that you can sue their arses for trademark 
infringement?

> > You're better off just drawing two circles.
> > </tip>
>You call that a tip?? :P JK

You call that a flame?

> > ___________________________________________________
> >       oliver.lineham   http://www.fucked.co.nz/
>-------------------------------------
>isaac forman - http://www.f-cked.com/

lamer.  you don't even have the balls to have an uncensored domain?

and don't even get me started on ou^H^H your hosting provider!


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dammit, that sucks.  umm..

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this is going downhill.  let me try again

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