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In early June I made a submission to the Letters to the Editor page of DNJournal. I waited several months but the page was never updated and Ron Jackson has recently informed me that the page will soon be eliminated.
The letter read:
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference Reporting
I am sorry to see the self-congratulatory cultism of Rick Schwartz's private domain board spill over into DNJournal reporting, i.e. the photo caption "Celebrated domain attorney John Berryhill."
Late last year I had a bad experience with Berryhill and was subsequently thrown off Schwartz's board and banned from TRAFFIC conferences for having the audacity to defend myself against attacks related to my reporting of it. Cults don't like people who criticize "celebrated" members of the group as the presence of such "celebrities" helps to reinforce the collective illusion of superiority which makes membership appealing.
While I don't deny that Schwartz and Berryhill have made valuable contributions to the domain industry - and many board members are nice people who don't necessarily approve of everything that goes on there - such uncritical reporting at DNJournal may contribute to a slowdown in the domain market if the larger business community comes to recognize and reject this cultism, as it very well may.
You can be the "Domain Industry News Magazine" or the "Rick Schwartz Cult-Board News Magazine." You can't be both.
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Jon Schultz
Las Vegas
The letter read:
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference Reporting
I am sorry to see the self-congratulatory cultism of Rick Schwartz's private domain board spill over into DNJournal reporting, i.e. the photo caption "Celebrated domain attorney John Berryhill."
Late last year I had a bad experience with Berryhill and was subsequently thrown off Schwartz's board and banned from TRAFFIC conferences for having the audacity to defend myself against attacks related to my reporting of it. Cults don't like people who criticize "celebrated" members of the group as the presence of such "celebrities" helps to reinforce the collective illusion of superiority which makes membership appealing.
While I don't deny that Schwartz and Berryhill have made valuable contributions to the domain industry - and many board members are nice people who don't necessarily approve of everything that goes on there - such uncritical reporting at DNJournal may contribute to a slowdown in the domain market if the larger business community comes to recognize and reject this cultism, as it very well may.
You can be the "Domain Industry News Magazine" or the "Rick Schwartz Cult-Board News Magazine." You can't be both.
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Jon Schultz
Las Vegas