Re: [DNSOP] *.DNS metaTLD [ref: additional special names]

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Wed, 05 March 2014 14:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] *.DNS metaTLD [ref: additional special names]
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 01:09:24PM +0000,
 Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote 
 a message of 32 lines which said:

> It's clear that it's possible to arrange very stable registration of
> domains, sufficient at least for some very valuable web properties
> to base their businesses on.

When you are a big company like amazon.com or google.com with money,
lawyers and so on. Not when you are a free software project ran by
volunteers.

> I suggest that it's entirely plausible for someone to choose a
> DNS-namespace anchor for their non-DNS namespace that is as stable
> as they want, depending on their needs.

Many people who lost their domain name would like to know how to do
that.