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To: paulmcg0 who wrote (759)	1/2/1999 6:07:00 AM
From: Joana Tides	Respond to of 2664

Paul, it seems quite a few of us are staying up all night with this, and (don't know if this is the same MSI that MLRE is using but doubt if there would be two product/web design development companies with such similar names) is this it? msinet.com Joana

To: paulmcg0 who wrote (759)	1/4/1999 11:31:00 AM
From: Blair P. Houghton	Respond to of 2664

Re all that stuff about MSI and web-hosting I'd like to point out that Globalcenter, now Frontier-Globalcenter, hosts Playboy.com and much of yahoo.com, as well as my dialup account. And they don't do any traffic at all, do they... Also, in order to get an internet domain, you have to tell the internic (Network Solutions, most likely) the name and IP address of your primary domain-name server, and if you don't have your own DNS machine in-house yet, as most new companies don't, you have to enter a cooperative agreement with an existing internet site that has a domain-name server that can reach you directly. That is, you need an ISP to hook you up. MSI is the one they decided to use, probably because the network wonks among the principals already own some of those domains you found. And MSI may end up providing all the hardware and connectivity and technical service millionaire.com will need, and cost-effectively at that. MLRE is definitely a development-phase company. This thing about where they have their IP hosted isn't too bothersome. It'd be somewhat nicer if they already had a phalanx of big iron just waiting to take bids, but we don't even have an indication that they've bought rights to anyone's auction software, yet, so I don't see a bottleneck forming over the weekend. Besides, what's their real customer base? Fifty, a hundred thousand people? This won't be run like eBay or Onsale.com. Don't expect the kind of frenzy here that you get there, even if millionaire.com will be selling Louis XIV chairs and eBay is selling used DustBusters. --Blair