Namespace conflicts

Fri Mar 9 15:19:20 UTC 2001

> In message <20010309064952.B10940 at eiv.com>, Shawn McMahon writes:
> >
> 
> >On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:27:20PM -0800, Tony Hain wrote:
> >> More precisely, the courts started getting involved as soon as
> >> first-come-first-serve stopped working fine.
> >
> >No, someone involved the courts when they were second, and the courts
> >didn't understand so they didn't smack it back at the lawyers "dismissed
> >with prejudice".
> >
> >DNS didn't make the mess, the courts did.
> 
> In my area of NJ, virtually every town's "obvious" .com domain names were 
> grabbed by one of two competing would-be service providers.  They had 
> absolutely no town-specific content -- but if the town wanted a Web 
> site, they had no choice but to deal with these folks.  I have no major 
> problem with first-come, first-served *productive* use of a domain name,
> but frankly, that's not where the problem has been.  The problem has 
> been speculators and cybersquatters.
> 

And how would you define "productive" use?

ALex