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Username: fabrcop
Date/Time: Sun, November 12, 2000 at 8:27 AM GMT
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Subject: I may be a "funny guy" as you say, but I am still the "generic Internet user"

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Kristopher (anonymous person) wrote:

---> You're a funny guy.
99% of Internet users don't even know about this whole situation, and most of them wouldn't care either way. <---

Sir, I may be a "funny guy", as you say,
but I am still the "generic Internet user".
Your nice words can't change this truth:
I registered a few .web domains at IOD
AFTER I understood that they are the natural
and fair choice for ICANN and for the Internet.

Do you know statistics?
A sample of 1% can show the general trends and shares
of the whole 100%.
Inside this 1% sample, if 90% is favorable to IOD and 10%
is against IOD, you can be sure that in the whole 100%
there will be similar shares - similar means 85% or 94%
or something near 90%.

I understand that it is difficult to explain this AT THIS TIME,
since statistics failed to forecast the new President of the USA.
However, this is due to actual equality between Gore and Bush -
even the smallest samples did show that they were 50% and 50%.

As you can see in ICANN forums, around 90% of generic Internet
users prefer IOD. This is what happened to myself.
So this case is very different from the Gore/Bush case:
there would be no doubt about the winner...

You wrote also:

---> I guess you could call me a "generic Internet user." [snip] <---

OK, I understand that you are one of the 10% against IOD.
Please remember that 90% is pro IOD.

Finally:
if you mean that 99% of people did not even know that IOD existed,
please notice that 99,9% of people did not even know that NSI
was taking pre-registrations for .com in 1993 .
Anyway, such pre-registrations are valid at this time.
I would like to register italy.com and italia.com
but I can't - they were registered in 1993.
So what? Do you think that those registrations are valid or not?

Regards,

A Funny Guy

whose real name is:
Fabrizio Coppola
from Italy

(you did not post your real name)


 


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