Re: Commercial Advantages of Hosting Name Servers

["David R. Conrad" <david.conrad@nominum.com>]

Randy,

Went fishing for red herring recently, did you?

The question asked was whether or not an ISP could be given a "commercial 
advantage in anyway, for example, in marketing, ..." by hosting a (high 
level) domain.  I indicated, that while I might be too cynical and I could 
be wrong, I thought that marketing folks at ISPs probably would.  A matter 
of opinion.  You then made up bogus statistics and have now branched off 
into some diatribe about non-ISPs trying to save ISPs.

I don't believe anyone (that is, either of the "bunch" of two of us) has 
proposed (or even discussed) trying to save ISPs from each other nor do I 
believe this relevant to the discussion.

If you are honestly claiming that you do not believe ISP marketing folk 
would try to gain advantage from hosting a high level domain, then we have 
dealt with different ISP marketing folks.  'Nuff said.

Rgds,
-drc

At 03:38 PM 12/11/2000 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
>let me be more clear.  we have heard a bunch of non-isps tell us how the
>isps need to be saved from eachother.  we have had one isp speak and say
>that they don't need saving.  i have yet to hear an isp who wants you to
>save them.  maybe we will.  until then, the value of more well-meaning
>non-isps offering to help us seems low.
>
>randy