[67990] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN/Registry Agreement:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Thu Feb 26 20:37:55 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:35:54 -0600
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <005601c3fcd0$a10e1e40$02005a0a@2mbit.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
[It isn't important who] wrote:
> It gives Verisign/NetSol the ability to generate exclusive profit from the
> hijacking of every non-existant domain name in existance. No other registar
> could do something like this without paying for every last domain they take,
> or could they ever do anything like this due to the fact that Verisign/NetSol
> controls ALL of the TLD servers for .com and .net.
..."hijacking of every non-existent domain name in existence."
..."non-existent ... in existence."
Several people have said things like that in recent times. Including
me, I'll bet.
What exactly does it mean?
(Yes, I know. We are talking about the fact that strings submitted for
lookup that have not been registered as names would not be cause an
error to be returned. And that is clearly a lot more words, if not a
clearer description of the problem. We need a wordsmith to give us a
short string that can be converted into a useful TLA.)
