[35458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Namespace conflicts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Fri Mar 9 10:25:30 2001
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:19:20 -0500 (EST)
From: <alex@yuriev.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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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.
>
And how would you define "productive" use?
ALex
