[NANOG] Re: Namespace conflicts

Thu Mar 8 23:40:55 UTC 2001

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Shawn McMahon wrote:

> I don't see that it's a problem.  First-come first-served worked fine
> until the courts got involved.

Didn't work _that_ fine either. In the .nl. domain rush of last year, I
have witnessed at least a dozen cases of two people applying for the same
domainname at the same time with a different provider and things getting
hairy in a legal manner (the loser by first-come-first-served will try to
blame his ISP for not acting quicker, implicate conspiracies between ISPs
and the winning party, etc. etc.)

I'd say do away with DNS, let's go back to a voluntary HOSTS.TXT. It's
either that or Active Directory Hell.

Pi