[15273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broken domain statistics...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Sanders)
Wed Feb 11 20:57:48 1998
To: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@dal.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:24:24 PST."
<19980211132424.19891@dragonlair.dal.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:42:49 -0700
From: "Michael K. Sanders" <msanders@aros.net>
In message <19980211132424.19891@dragonlair.dal.net>, Dalvenjah FoxFire writes:
>
>And if it is, it means that 17% of the folks on the internet are
>paying for domains that don't work. Either that, or something else
>is broken.
An alternate interpretation might be that 17% (or some portion
thereof) of the domains in .COM are held by domain speculators who
have no intention of paying for them and can't be bothered to provide
DNS for them.
>I'm posting here because I feel it is an operational issue; that,
>plus I feel there're more folks here who can and will hammer at
>InterNIC to start doing something to enforce their policies that
>require real, authoritative nameservers.
If nothing else, it might deter casual domain speculators. God forbid
they actually have to configure something before they can register a
domain... No doubt someone would just automate the process, though.
