[95] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Fri Jul 28 22:21:37 1995
To: scharf@vix.com (Jerry Scharf)
cc: curtis@ans.net, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:42:55 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 22:12:12 -0400
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <9507281742.AA12717@gw.home.vix.com>, Jerry Scharf writes:
> > Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:51:03 -0400
> > From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
> >
> > Is ibm.nyse.com, dec.nyse, mci.nasdaq.com a problem? This takes the
> > arbitrary decision out of accepting or denying someone access to the
> > .com hierarchy and enforces and already strict naming.
> >
> There are two problems I see with this. There are many companies who are
> privately held, including billion dollar ones. Also, there are companies
> who have certificates traded on more than one trading place (I know of
> Japan/US situations.)
Privately held companies will have to go in the geographic heirarchy.
I don't think this is a major hardship.
It's OK to have two domain names if trading on more than one exchange.
> The more fundamental question is where do you put all the companies that
> you are now forcing out of .com?
Put them in the geographic heirarchy.
> Jerry
Of course the $25k a year to stay in .com might also be an option for
the truly huge and certainly fund some hefty root name servers.
Curtis
