[35460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Namespace conflicts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan C. Andregg)
Fri Mar 9 10:45:18 2001
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:02:28 -0500
From: "Bryan C. Andregg" <bandregg@redhat.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:10:09AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin mailed:
> In my area of NJ, virtually every town's "obvious" .com domain names were=
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> grabbed by one of two competing would-be service providers. They had=20
> absolutely no town-specific content -- but if the town wanted a Web=20
> site, they had no choice but to deal with these folks. I have no major=
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> 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=20
> been speculators and cybersquatters.
Uh, why couldn't the town just use <name>.nj.us or whatever the city specif=
ic
code was long ago and far way.
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