[ALSC-Forum] Re: Mike Johnson

[Jeff Williams]

Mark and all,

  Thanks Mark for this interesting information.  Very helpful! >;)

  Has any of this been passed to the ICANN BoD.  Seems to me this
would be grounds for terminating their Registrar and Registry agreement...
I doubt that the ICANN BoD will pay attention though....  :(

Mark Henderson-Thynne wrote:

> As another former NSI employee (I recently left NSI after 3 years in channel
> development and product management, and some of you may also remember me
> from NetNames and .tm 3 to 5 years ago as well as the IFWP etc) I can
> confirm that Michael Johnson is a real person and did work at Network
> Solutions during the time specified in the lawsuit.
>
> Michael seemed like a nice personable kind of guy and as Director of BAO was
> responsible for a mostly thankless task: Registrant name changes and
> disputes.
>
> The events Michael describes surrounding the reorganization of BAO mostly
> match my recollection but beyond that I do not know if the various
> accusations around the actions and statements of senior registrar staff are
> correct (although the Bruce Chovnick rumors are very well known ;-)
>
> To be honest I do not if there was racism involved or whether that is just
> Michael's interpretation, but there are 3 areas that could, in my opinion
> (without knowing all the details), have contributed to him "leaving" NSI:
>
> 1) Racism (although I did not see any situations at NSI that I felt were
> racist)
> 2) He stuck up for the customer instead of the shareholder
> 3) He was not liked by senior management (you have to be part of the clique
> to succeed at NSI)
>
> Mark......
>
> P.S. On a personal note I hope to contribute to domain related forums more
> now I am no longer an NSI employee. I am currently taking off a couple of
> months to travel and will then be looking for a new job, I am not sure if I
> will stay in the domain industry but if anyone knows of any interesting
> vacancies in the Northern VA or SF Bay area feel free to drop me an email
> off-list. Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owner-Domain-Policy
> [mailto:owner-domain-policy@LISTS.NETSOL.COM]On Behalf Of flip levin
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 1:37 AM
> To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.NETSOL.COM
> Subject: [DOMAIN-POLICY] Mike Johnson v Verisign and Network Solutions
> Lawsuit
>
> Good Morning Jaime:
>
> I just got this from my server at the office.  Karen knows the lawyers for
> Mike Johnson and she got copies of everything. Did you know about this? Did
> you see where these guys steal from customers and lies to ICANN and NTIA and
> still get their contract renewed?  Something isn't right here.
>
> Hey, notice that ICANN and Department of Commerce and NTIA got this
> stuff before the final approval from the Congress Commerce Committee.
> Isn't this dishonest?  Did Verisign really buy everybody? Who is still
> watching the store?
>
> Everybody out here should contact Congress to stop this fast train!  This
> just isn't right.  Karen said that Congressmen Markey and Dingel and several
> Senators are getting together to stop this deal.  We can help by contacting
> these lawmakers and telling how this affects us!
>
> d
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Regards,

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