[35455] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Namespace conflicts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Mar 9 09:13:15 2001
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:10:09 -0500
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In message <20010309064952.B10940@eiv.com>, Shawn McMahon writes:
>
>On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:27:20PM -0800, Tony Hain wrote:
>> More precisely, the courts started getting involved as soon as
>> first-come-first-serve stopped working fine.
>
>No, someone involved the courts when they were second, and the courts
>didn't understand so they didn't smack it back at the lawyers "dismissed
>with prejudice".
>
>DNS didn't make the mess, the courts did.
In my area of NJ, virtually every town's "obvious" .com domain names were
grabbed by one of two competing would-be service providers. They had
absolutely no town-specific content -- but if the town wanted a Web
site, they had no choice but to deal with these folks. I have no major
problem with first-come, first-served *productive* use of a domain name,
but frankly, that's not where the problem has been. The problem has
been speculators and cybersquatters.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
