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On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:02:28AM -0500, Bryan C. Andregg 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. Because some company in Norwalk, CT holds www.<city-name>.nj.us for most of the cities in New Jersey since 1997. > -- > Bryan C. Andregg Smoke Jumper "As Slow as Possible, > <bandregg@redhat.com> Red Hat, Inc. As Fast as Necessary." > > gpg 1024D/19893A19 A8DA 869A 037A C6B5 BF07 AB61 E406 414B 1989 3A19 -- Omachonu Ogali missnglnk@informationwave.net http://www.informationwave.net
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