Cerf and WorldCom get a bit of comeuppance

Bonobos,

  This note is so much fun largely because Vint Cerf is a prick on wheels, and a
  large part of the reason, though by no means the only reason, that ICANN sucks
  shit through a straw and has managed to do what seemed a few years ago
  unthinkable: *accelerate* the corporatization of the net.

Kendall
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Dear Vint,

In Washington, DC last year (2001) after your testimony at the House Commerce
Committee you made a remark to me that "Why would we 'give' any TLDs to a
company that's about to go BANKRUPT?" implying that Name.Space was going
bankrupt.  What about YOUR company, MCI/Worldcom, whose bankruptcy was allegedly
caused by CORPORATE CRIME?  So far, my company Name.Space, who was driven to
near bankruptcy (we're NOT bankrupt) by ICANN's CORRUPTION and apparent
conspiracy to control the domain market, is still here despite the fact that
ICANN robbed us of $50,000.00 and hijacked 3 of our domains, 'INFO.', 'PRO.' and
'MUSEUM.'  "subjectively" (as you put it in your testimony) giving them to a
small circle of interests close to ICANN and the other dominant players in the
DNS industry.

I know that the law is not always applied equally--many believe that Name.Space
should have prevailed in it's antitrust case against NSI the same way MCI won
against ATT in 1983--but perhaps those in your circles who are responsible for
the wrongdoings both at MCI/Worldcom and at ICANN will be brought to justice and
prosecuted for their crimes.

If my company ever does go bankrupt at least I will have the comfort of knowing
that I worked diligently and honestly, and that if any white collar criminals
are responsible for its failure, that they come not from within my company, but
from without, possibly from people whom you may be familiar with.  Nobody from
inside NAME.SPACE stole money as the insiders of MCI/Worldcom allegedly did; our
money was stolen by ICANN and its co-conspirators.

As I understand it, Name.Space's application is still pending before ICANN and
we intend to pursue the publication of our TLDs into the root as well as seek
redress for any transgressions that may have taken place in the process of
preventing us from rightfully gaining access to the root domain to publish our
TLDs globally.

Name.Space has been publishing new TLDs at the request of the public since 1996,
PRE-DATING ICANN by more than TWO YEARS.  In 1997 Name.Space sought publication
of its new TLDs in the legacy ROOT through its antitrust action against Network
Solutions, Inc./SAIC and through First Amendment action against the National
Science Foundation, then the US Department of Commerce/ NTIA (after the NTIA
took control of the NSF/NSI cooperative agreement in Sept, 1998, amending it to
establish the chain of command originating at the NTIA where it lies today).
See http://namespace.org/law

Sincerely,

Paul Garrin
Founder, Name.Space
<[email protected]>