[94317] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Thu Jan 18 10:06:55 2007
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:03:49 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Cc: Joseph Jackson <JJackson@aninetworks.com>,
"Travis H." <travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org>, nanog@nanog.org,
Mark Foster <blakjak@blakjak.net>, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
In-Reply-To: <4523ECF4-5DDB-4B7A-9DEC-7C4C5DC18661@ca.afilias.info>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:43:37AM -0500,
Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> wrote
a message of 25 lines which said:
> Back in the day, pre-CIRA, .CA was managed according to rules which
> included the restriction that a single company was only allowed one
> domain name.
Same thing in ".fr", until 2000.
> I think that policy was good for the DNS, but it was apparently
> widely hated by everybody else,
The big problem with this rule is that you have to define what is "a
single company". It is easy (especially for a big company like the one
you mention) to find or set up "fronts" to register more domain
names.
