Morning Folks!!
You can only ask questions and let folks answer them as they see fit. They get the rewards if it works and they suffer the consequences when it does not.
The minute I saw the answers by Daniel Negari to the questions posed, I knew his troubles had just begun and was about to get much worse. He just dug a deeper hole. My job was to let things unfold in a natural way and they did. There was little for me to say but to step aside and watch the implosion and the fallout as his non-answers would be picked apart by you the reader in the comment section and would cause the fury that would erupt as it did. My job was not to force the issue. But I could see everything that was about to unfold as it did the moment I read the answers. My very first thought was "The walls of Jericho are about to fall."
Mike Berkens has been writing about and discovered many of the goings on including: "NSI is responsible for over 80,000 of the 96,246 registrations. If you netted out the NSI registrations .XYZ would have somewhere around 16,000 registrations which would have placed it around number 12 on the list.”
Others like Konstantinos Zournas have exposed this from the get go and he calculates they would be in 34th place not first.
I think folks like Ron Jackson, that has been covering Negari and .xyz for a while, feel duped.
Many others had their say as well and opinions are VERY strong.
I only posed one follow-up question and it went like this: "My only question is did you know about the network solutions deal in any way shape or form?" And I got the standard NDA answer.
I think the NDA violation would have been less damaging than the fallout already suffered by both these companies.
I thought Negari would have come here and fielded the questions and concerns. I think not doing so only hurt his cause further inside the domaining community and made the firestorm much worse and will last much longer. I have been in this business a very long time and I don't think I have ever seen this level of anger by so many different corners of the industry. They feel as if a hoax as been perpetrated on them and the anger has grown each day that it has continued.
And when it comes to Network Solutions, they have done damage akin to Moniker years ago. I think they both need to DESTROY the NDA and come set the record straight. I think the one with most exposure is Network Solutions and where is ICANN?? No NDA is worth pissing away your reputation for.
I just hope when the next gTLD tries to pull something cute, the outrage is just as great. Friend or foe. RIGHT???
Now you KNOW what HYPE looks like in the RAW form but don't think for a minute that others are lily-white. Please! The shenanigans are way over the top. My advice, stop the bullshit and run clean businesses before you are ALL linked by the belly button. So stop the clawbacks and make sure you speak out loud the next time that happens. It did not affect me personally but I think the practice is absolutely disgusting and I will continue to bring it up.
I guess it will be a few more days before they really get to 1 million registrations.
Lastly, NO DOMAINER has ANY OBLIGATION to support ANY new gTLD whatsoever, so don't buy into that nonsense. On the other hand the gTLD's have an obligation to treat domainers a lot better than they have. They need us not the other way around.
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