dns - golog

Thu Oct 19 23:35:25 UTC 2006

At 06:53 PM 10/19/2006, Thomas Leavitt wrote:

Hi Thomas!

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>... finally, why go through all this hassle for what has to be an
>utterly trivial amount of money resulting from people being presented
>with something totally unexpected and clicking on a link therein... how
>valuable are these people as customers? I can't imagine much...

 > a) is there enough revenue here to consider?

This isn't something that's so easy to determine, but
golog and others must have a financial model in order
to be pursuing it.

Here's a visionary article related to this topic, but
at the root server level, even more of a delicate issue,
but with the same principles as the one we're discussing:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/techies_wanna_do_policy/

And this article shows the convenience of falling back
on standards when they serve your purpose:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/paul_vixie_on_fort_nocs/

YMMV:

Best Regards,

Martin

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