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Re: Interesting new dns failures

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon May 21 09:45:19 2007

To: bmanning@karoshi.com
Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>,
	"Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>,
	nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 May 2007 10:38:56 -0000."
             <20070521103856.GA16443@vacation.karoshi.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 09:43:39 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:38:56 -0000, bmanning@karoshi.com said:
> 	if you can get concensus to remove .com, i'm sure the roots would
> 	be willing to help out.

Whose bright idea *was* it to design a tree-hierarchical structure, and then
dump essentially all 140 million entries under the same node, anyhow? :)

I'll bet a large pizza that 90% or more could be relocated to a more
appropriate location in the DNS tree, and nobody except the domain holder
and less than a dozen other people will notice/care in the slightest. Now
if anybody has a good idea on what to do with those companies that register
www.thissummersblockbustermoviecomingsoonnow.com ;)


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