HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

Thu Jan 18 17:11:21 UTC 2007

What about companies that do business under different Dab's?  I know of
a lot of companies that do business under different names for different
products.

Joseph

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer at nic.fr] 
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:04 AM
To: Joe Abley
Cc: Joseph Jackson; Travis H.; nanog at nanog.org; Mark Foster; Rich
Kulawiec
Subject: Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:43:37AM -0500,
 Joe Abley <jabley at ca.afilias.info> wrote 
 a message of 25 lines which said:

> Back in the day, pre-CIRA, .CA was managed according to rules which
> included the restriction that a single company was only allowed one
> domain name.

Same thing in ".fr", until 2000. 

> I think that policy was good for the DNS, but it was apparently
> widely hated by everybody else,

The big problem with this rule is that you have to define what is "a
single company". It is easy (especially for a big company like the one
you mention) to find or set up "fronts" to register more domain
names. 