[3300] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hostname Scam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Kalbfeld)
Tue Jul 2 14:39:47 1996
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:31:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jonathan Kalbfeld <jkalbfel@WR.BBNPLANET.COM>
To: "Mark M. Borchers" <markb@infi.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607021229.IAA08231@larry.infi.net>
On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Mark M. Borchers wrote:
> Here's an interesting twist. This company wants to operate
> a series of web sites named visit.<state>.com. They want
> everyone who holds a domain named after a state in the
> COM TLD to support the effort in DNS. There is repeated
> reference to potential advertising revenue, so this is
> a commercial venture.
>
> The postscript states an intention on the part of USA Internet
> Gateway to register and enforce the hostname "visit" for any
> <state>.com domain. Sounds absurd, but you never know what
> will happen in the US legal system.
>
>
> Mark Borchers
> InfiNet Network Engineering
>
Hmm. Actually, it seems like an excellent method for avoiding paying
$100 for the registration of a domain with InterNIC. Could this be their
motivation? ;-)
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