Domain Name NASA.COM

Sat Jul 12 21:25:10 UTC 1997

On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Andrew J. Doane wrote:

> > Today, without notice, the InterNIC turned "off" the domain name NASA.COM,
> > a domain which had been registered now for over two years.

[blah]

> > www.nasa.com
> Server:  ns1.host.net
> Address:  209.4.122.20
> 
> Name:    www.nasa.com
> Address:  209.4.122.102
> 
> What I found indeed had nothing to do with space exploration.  What
> I found was an ad for some kind of porno/sex service, a comment about
> the domain being taken away from you, and then a link to host.net's 
> main page.  It appears that you have nothing to do with space exploration,
> or should I sufice to say nothing to do with anything.  From my
> perspecitve, you are using the domain nasa.com in an effort to advertise
> to people who miss-enter the URL for NASA.gov, and with the current
> Mars Pathfinder mission, I'm sure thats quite a few.  These being the

Of course.  If you are running Netscape, type 'nasa'in the location box, 
and Netscape will morph it into 'nasa.com' and thus take you to their 
porn site.  You get nood dames instead of barren landscapes.

> InterNIC; but in the long run you will loose the case, because you
> fail to have one.  [Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, and I am not

I played a lawyer once in a school play.

Bill