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

Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org> Wed, 05 March 2014 15:04 UTC

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On 03/05/2014 03:50 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 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.

Yes, and while you're at it, please tell the people from
thepiratebay.org --- their ability to keep a stable DNS namespace anchor
has been abysmal recently.

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