[94319] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Jackson)
Thu Jan 18 12:24:40 2007
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:11:21 -0800
From: "Joseph Jackson" <JJackson@aninetworks.com>
To: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>,
"Joe Abley" <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Cc: "Travis H." <travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org>,
<nanog@nanog.org>, "Mark Foster" <blakjak@blakjak.net>,
"Rich Kulawiec" <rsk@gsp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
What about companies that do business under different Dab's? I know of
a lot of companies that do business under different names for different
products.
Joseph
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer@nic.fr]=20
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:04 AM
To: Joe Abley
Cc: Joseph Jackson; Travis H.; nanog@nanog.org; Mark Foster; Rich
Kulawiec
Subject: Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:43:37AM -0500,
Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> wrote=20
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.=20
> 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.=20
