Stardate 20010909.0621 (On Screen): I've had people ask me why I opted for a .nu domain instead of a more nomal .com or .org or something like that. There were two reasons: Network Solutions and ICANN. With a .nu TLD I don't have to worry about either of them. ICANN happens to have done the right thing in this decision (to not enforce non-profitness on possessors of .org domains) but they could just as easily have decided to do the opposite. Some of their decisions in the past have seemed to the casual observer as being totally arbitrary. ICANN is completely out of control; it's making bad decisions and botching management and supervision and is in thrall to big trademark holders. On the other hand, the .nu TLD belongs to the island of Niue in Polynesia, a flyspeck island near nothing in particular. ICANN granted them this domain to do with what they will, and like their neighbor Tuvalu (.tv) and the Cocos Islands (.cc) they're using it to cash in. The money I paid to
NuNames partly went to pay for
giving the people of Niue access to the Internet, instead of going to enrich Network Solutions. NSI will get some of my money when Hell freezes over.
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