The
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"We
can think of doing something different, but it will always be connected
to this," Zai said. "We are not anti-corporate. That's something people
don't understand. We are an overdrive corporation with surreal goals. We
sell nothing except ourselves. We don't promise any revenues other than
cultural revenues. There are other corporations that don't have any revenue.
We don't promise any revenue, except excitement and maybe a little bit
of confusion."
The
battle with eToys appeared to be over last week when a deal was finally
reached. EToys promptly faxed Network Solutions to inform it that "the
parties have reached a settlement of their dispute" and to request removal
of the "hold" on www.etoy.com.
But
so far, nothing has happened. Network Solutions claims it was "ordered"
by Shook to put the "hold" on etoy.com, but even eToys admits that the
earlier action came at its behest -- when it contacted NSI.
"Network
Solutions will release the name once the court orders Network Solutions
to do so," NSI spokesman Brian O'Shaughnessy wrote in an email. "As you
will recall -- NSI was ordered to put the name on hold by a court. We complied.
We will -- therefore -- comply with the court to remove the name from a
hold."
As
a result, etoy has again decided to whip up its followers into a frenzy
-- and declare "DEFCON 1" and rage cyberwar against both NSI and eToys
until the matter is resolved.
"THIS
IS BULLSHIT!" screams the latest mass mailing. "THE REMOVAL OF THE etoy.com
DNS ROOT ENTRIES IN DECEMBER WAS ILLEGAL! THE JUDGE DID NOT SIGN ANYTHING
RELATED TO THE etoy DOMAIN! etoy WAS TOLD NOT TO OPERATE THE WEBSITE (!)
www.etoy.com (till the situation is clear) BUT THE etoy.EMAIL AND OTHER
RELATED SERVICES (like broadcast.etoy.com) WERE NOT INVOLVED! NSI DID NOT
HAVE AN ORDER TO PUT etoy.com ON HOLD! BUT NOW THEY NEED AN ORDER TO INSTALL
OUR DOMAIN NAME WE PAID FOR! THIS IS JUST RIDICULOUS."
"Big
project? Big project?" you can almost hear the proprietor of the Spanish
restaurant asking.
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