On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 04:00:06PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > One of the most fascinating things to come out of the whole Afilias > winning the right to host the .org and .info domains was Oracle's PR > response to the suggestion of using postgresql. Wish I could find it. It was only the .org case. The .org redelegation, more than the start up of .info, was quite controversial. Nobody knew how much a new TLD was likely to make, but at redelegation .org contained about 5 million domains. At $6.00 per name per year wholesale (of which Afilias, as a vendor to PIR, took only a part, I wish to emphasise), there was a non-trivial amount of money involved in the operation of .org, so the bidding was pretty heavy. Also, at the time it wasn't clear to anyone whether ICANN would ever permit more labels in the root zone (now, of course, we know that the plan is thousands of new domains. It's feast or famine in the domain name industry ;-). The Oracle stuff is all part of the archived public comments on the ICANN site. You can find the whole sorry controversy here: <http://forum.icann.org/org-eval/gartner-report/>. Oracle's mouthpiece, Jenny Gelhausen, did seem to have conflated PostgreSQL and MySQL in the remarks. I found particularly amusing the claim in those remarks that Postgres was used primarily in the embedded market, because of course Postgres has very frequently been attacked for its resistance to proposed features that render it more suitable for the embedded market. The Gartner report itself was controversial: ISC, who also promised to use PostgreSQL for its back end, got a lower grade on the back end than did Afilias. Anyway, this is all an amusing walk down memory lane. Thanks for the reminder! Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
