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Re: Namespace conflicts
From: Tom Lettington <tom () tfl net>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:43:01 -0800
ISI delegated the registration of .US domains a long time ago. See http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt At 09:21 AM 3/9/2001 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
> 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> > 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. >> Uh, why couldn't the town just use <name>.nj.us or whatever the city specific> code was long ago and far way. No. However, they could use ci.<name>.nj.us, and that's where I usually go if I'm looking for a particular city's web site. The reason for this distinction is to support things like: ci.alameda.ca.us City of Alameda co.alameda.ca.us County of Alameda joesshoes.alameda.ca.us Joe's Shoe Shop in Alameda, CA etc. There's an RFC that spells all this out (1680 comes to mind, but not sure that's the right number). Owen
Current thread:
- Re: Namespace conflicts Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts alex (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Shawn McMahon (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Bryan C. Andregg (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Omachonu Ogali (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Charles Scott (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Shawn McMahon (Mar 09)
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- Re: Namespace conflicts Shawn McMahon (Mar 09)
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- Re: Namespace conflicts alex (Mar 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Namespace conflicts Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Owen DeLong (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Tom Lettington (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Joe Provo (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Clayton Fiske (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Tom Lettington (Mar 09)
- RE: Namespace conflicts Mark Borchers (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Saint skullY the Dazed (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Aaron L. Meehan (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Scott Gifford (Mar 09)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Stephen Griffin (Mar 10)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Saint skullY the Dazed (Mar 09)
- RE: Namespace conflicts Roeland Meyer (Mar 10)
- Re: Namespace conflicts Henry R. Linneweh (Mar 10)