[17600] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WorldNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Jun 7 14:05:17 1998
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:37:53 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980605115857.6710A-100000@mimosa.noc.empnet.com>; from Chris Cappuccio <chris@empnet.com> on Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 12:05:58PM -0700
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 12:05:58PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> I think the real fraud is in WorldNIC and other registrars (like Netnames in
> the UK) selling vanity names in country TLDs. IANA encourages this.
> WorldNIC has an offer for $17,545 USD that will register a domain in all 72
> TLDs (or 5 domains in all 72 TLDs for $87,725 USD)...
It is obviously time (well, way past time, actually) for me to go make
a big hairy thing of myself on the domain policy lists; my NTIA NOI
comments, which in theory were part of the universe of info used by
Magaziner et al to come to their conclusions, harped on this point
heavily: you can't split the namespace horizontally (.com v. .firm v
.store) because people will do what Mindspring <loud growl> is
_encouragingg_ them to do: race to register their name in _every_
possibly TLD... which makes the whole thing useless.
Annoying as Jim Fleming is, he is running with an idea I also published
in those notes: .am, .fm and .tv. Vertical division of the namespace
(by industry or licensure, for example) will work, and is an excellent
idea. Otherwise, I'm considering proposing the abolishment of
non-geographic domains entirely.
And this is now entirely off-topic, and any replies will only be
entertained in email.
Cheers,
-- jra
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