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Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Ulevitch)
Fri May 12 02:40:00 2006

In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060512022601.0240cc70@renesys.com>
Cc: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>, nanog@nanog.org
From: David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 23:39:28 -0700
To: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



On May 11, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:

>
> Im having an offline discussion with a list member and I'll ask,  
> why does it matter if
> you have a domain name if a directory can hold everything you need  
> to know about them
> via key words and ip-addrs, NAT's and all?

It's all about authority, literally and figuratively.

Google might be a good search engine, but I don't control google like  
I control my zones.

Being that google is evil now, I don't think I want to give them  
authority for my zones. ;)

-David


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