Declan McCullagh wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Note that AIM, the sponsors of the "WashingtonWeb" conference, are the folks who appear to be paid stooges for Network Solutions in trying to keep their ten million dollar per month monopoly on domain names. AIM's coverage of that issue has been completely false and completely biased ("The Internet is likely to break apart on October 15, 1997"; "you may lose all rights to use your trademark in your Internet address forever". See www.interactivehq.org/oic/).
From the January 5, 1998 issue of Internet Week, page 14:
"Network Solutions, Inc., which registers domain names under an agreement with the National Science Foundation, will have the [DNS] agreement extended six months beyond its March 1998 conclusion to ensure the stability of the system." --David Miller