[128] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Mon Jul 31 16:30:29 1995
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Jul 1995 15:20:13 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 13:26:04 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> If a change is made, I feel it needs to be applied globally to all, not
> just the small businesses.
that's my feeling as well.
on the other hand there are big companies out there who believe that their
trademarks and service marks are bound tightly to their domain names. for
them we should offer a chance to stay in .COM but for a _very_ high price --
the $25K/year figure quoted here recently wasn't unreasonable. to IBM.COM
or DIGITAL.COM this is peanuts, and it will keep their lawyers happy, and
it will keep IANA or Internic from being sued for restraint of trade.
