[40756] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: XTNS launch alternate domain name system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Tue Aug 21 13:21:33 2001
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:20:54 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <000a01c12a6d$dab98e00$acfafc80@fury>; from davidu@everydns.net on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:19:44AM -0700
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On 08/21/01, David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net> wrote:
> I believe they are just a licensee of RealNames.
>
> So while http://somedumbcompany.lame might work in Internet Explorer
> 5.0+
>
> Try telnetting to somedumbcompany.lame:25. They won't get email, EVER.
>
> This company is even more bogus then new.net. At least new.net is
> /trying/ to use dns.
We should expect to see more of these crop up. Through closed
doors and other unfriendly policies, ICANN has screwed us but
good -- and we let them.
ObOperationalContent: what methods do y'all use for disseminating
info like "watch out for this new stupidity" to your front-line
tech support folks? How about for companies that outsource their
support? Is it even worth trying?
--
J.D. Falk a plenitude should not be wasted
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
