Namespace conflicts

Fri Mar 9 15:38:55 UTC 2001

In message <20010309100228.A2521 at redhat.com>, "Bryan C. Andregg" writes:
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>On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:10:09AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin mailed:
>> In my area of NJ, virtually every town's "obvious" .com domain names were=
>=20
>> grabbed by one of two competing would-be service providers.  They had=20
>> absolutely no town-specific content -- but if the town wanted a Web=20
>> site, they had no choice but to deal with these folks.  I have no major=
>=20
>> 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=20
>> been speculators and cybersquatters.
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>Uh, why couldn't the town just use <name>.nj.us or whatever the city specif=
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>code was long ago and far way.

They grabbed those, too.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb