Namespace conflicts

Scott Gifford sgifford at tir.com
Fri Mar 9 23:15:25 UTC 2001


Saint skullY the Dazed <skully at netlsd.org> writes:

> AFAIK there is no way for you to register anything under
> ci.cityname.state.us unless you're affiliated with that city's
> government.  IMO, it makes sense to do that.

Errr...If somebody already has "cityname.state.us", they implicitly
have ownership of "ci.cityname.state.us".  They just have to add it to
their DNS zone files.

If it were "cityname.ci.state.us", it would be another story, but for
some strange reason that's not how it's done.

-----ScottG.




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