proposed government regulation of .za namespace

Sat May 25 15:57:56 UTC 2002

randy at psg.com (Randy Bush) writes:

> well, za and some of its principal subdomains are the highest error
> rate zones i secondary or use.  but i can imagine a different part
> of the government doing an even funkier job.  the contest is likely
> keen.

ISC has had very little in the way of problems as a .ZA slave, fwiw.

[phred.isc:alpha] ls -l *.[a-z][a-z] ??
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system     282852 May 25 08:41 bg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system     284449 May 25 08:04 br
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system    5149177 May 25 07:59 cl
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system   69640307 May 25 07:28 com.br
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system    7722812 May 25 06:55 cz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system   15684581 May 25 04:33 fr
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system        393 May 25 08:53 kailua-kona.hi.us
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system       9585 May 25 08:38 palo-alto.ca.us
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system       9409 May 25 04:57 za

(btw, more are welcome if anybody else needs a feeless TLD/SLD slave.)

> but semi-clued governments and semi-clued folk in general seem to
> be attracted to the domain name space.  i suspect it is one of
> those areas that appear simpler, more powerful, and more lucrative
> than they actually are.  running a cctld well is a major pita with
> no thanks and thin rewards.

brother, you just said a mouthful.