[65] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geert Jan de Groot)
Fri Jul 28 05:53:13 1995
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, usdomreg@isi.edu
From: Geert Jan de Groot <GeertJan.deGroot@ripe.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:56:35 PDT."
<9507280256.AA17223@gw.home.vix.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 11:48:03 +0200
On Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:56:35 -0700 Paul A Vixie wrote:
> Everyone, large and small, has to be treated as equally as possible. And
> the domain names have to be quite a lot uglier than they are now, such that
> the tendancy to register under .NET,.COM,.ORG,etc just to protect the company
> name or trademark(s) will no longer bear useful fruit for those who do it.
As far as I know, there is no 'congestion' on the 800-namespace.
maybe, one of the reasons is that these 'records' have a fixed, 7-digit
length, and 'vanity' numbers have the same length as ugly ones,
spreading the load.
Maybe we should enforce a minimum length on any complete domain name?
Geert Jan
