PRESS RELEASE:
October 26, 2000 - TIBURON, CALIFORNIA:APPLE COFOUNDER ENDORSES
NEW DOTYP TOP LEVEL
DOMAIN
Introduction: Steve Wozniak, co-founder of
Apple Computer,
reviewed the proposal for the .yp Top Level Domain.
When the
idea for the dotYP Top Level Domain (.yp) was
presented to me by the founders,
I was impressed by the
technical ingenuity as well as the promise of continuing
a trend
that goes back 25 years. At Apple we tried to make a technical
difference
that empowered the individual beyond expected limits.
dotYP solves some fundamental
problems facing the growth of
the web, and it does it with some neat technology
that doesn't
alter the existing DNS system.
The web is all about open communications.
The more people
who can connect, the greater the benefits for everyone
connected.
dotYP is exciting because it opens communications
where there previously was
a limit. dotYP proves that limits to the
web are artificial, and in the end,
counterproductive.
dotYP is proposing a global Top Level Domain (gTLD) called
".yp"
(or .ypi, .ypa, .find) to create an international directory service
for organizations
and businesses worldwide. By combining
international telephone directories with
on-line capabilities, and
allowing context-sensitive searching capability as
part of the
URL, anyone will be able to find any organization or business
anywhere.
dotYP
avoids the privacy and intellectual property problems with
current URLs. With
dotYP, trademarks and name protection are
built in. I know that many people will
appreciate that dotYP chose
not to provide residential listings due to privacy
concerns. Once
the issues are cleared up, dotYP technology could support these
easily.
dotYP lowers the barrier of entry to anyone who can pay for a
business
telephone. They don't need to have the assets of a
large business, multinational
company, or state-owned
enterprise, which is the requirement to get a decent
.com URL.
That's a big improvement from the land rush mentality for
registering
a domain.
The technology behind dotYP is surprisingly simple and that's
the
beauty of it. dotYP combines a Domain Name Service (DNS)
protocol with a context-
and geography- based search of every
telephone (and perhaps web) directory worldwide.
dotYP will be
available by web query via an extension to the existing name
service
lookup.
I can use my web browser, a even one of the new wireless
devices, to
enter a topic, the location, and .yp. dotYP then serves
me a page listing the
organizations' names, addresses, phone
numbers and URLs. For example, if I wanted
glasses near
where I live, I might type glasses.losgatos.yp. dotYP is flexible
enough that I could enter optician.95030.yp and get the same
answers. I can
choose the geographic search criteria using mail
code, area code, neighborhood
name, not just city name, which
if you live in a suburban area, are drawn along
pretty arbitrary
lines.
dotYP also acknowledges that we live in a big world.
If I'm
traveling in Japan I can't use a paper phone directory to find an
electronics
store in the Akihabara, I don't read Japanese Kanji.
Someone in Japan shouldn't
have to use English letters to enter
a URL. dotYP supports double byte characters
like Arabic and
Chinese, and can also support translations. You could easily
do
a search from anywhere to anywhere. In essence, dotYP will
provide a public
service, a commercial utility, a value-added
resource, and a boon for the Internet
at large.
Other registration systems have to set a limit on the number of
domains.
Competition then becomes limited to the largest, most
entrenched industrial players.
Commercial services must cater
to the best funded and most visible, so they end
up being
beholden to special interests with the biggest checkbooks in the
richest
countries.
Allowing everyone to participate equally supports everything I've
always
believed about technology. I've been fortunate to travel to
many countries where
technology is changing the status quo.
The dotYP service adds to the growing
trend for developing
nations to open the Internet for greater public access.
Non-
governmental private ventures can play a greater role in both
internal
and external trade. The lower barriers to entry mean that
nearly everyone gets
to participate in the benefits of global
communication, regardless of wealth
or the size of your
homeland.
I hope that ICANN takes the time to carefully
consider the dotYP
submission. If they do, they'll realize that dotYP offers
something
completely different than the traditional registration systems.
Giving
everyone in the world equal access to a new technology is
an idea that I'm pleased
to lend my support.
ABOUT DOTYP:
Monsoon Assets Limited is a British Virgin Islands
company
doing business as dotYP Inc. in the United States. The company
is
the registered applicant for the .yp, .ypi, .ypa and .find TLDs to
ICANN, The
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers - icann.org. The company
was formed in BVI to offer
services around the world.
TO COMMENT ON DOTYP AT
ICANN:
www.icann.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON DOTYP VISIT:
dotyp.com
CONTACT:
Frank
Corsini
CEO
dotYP Inc (Monsoon Assets Ltd)
(415)435-4700
fcorsini@dotyp.com