[15281] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broken domain statistics...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dirk@power.net)
Thu Feb 12 11:40:28 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:46:50 -0800
From: dirk@power.net
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199802120142.SAA09907@shell.aros.net>; from Michael K. Sanders on Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 06:42:49PM -0700
Tons of people have used our domain name servers without
permission. Of course, we don't set up a domain name without
compensation...
Dirk
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 06:42:49PM -0700, Michael K. Sanders wrote:
> 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.
>