Re: draft-isoc-dns-role-00.txt

Dirk Fieldhouse <fieldhouse@logica.com> Thu, 23 November 1995 20:56 UTC

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In article <199511231753.MAA24553@jekyll.piermont.com>, perry@piermont.com 
says...

>And I always do, I'll point out that the .COM namespace isn't
>"overloaded" any more than the Delaware corporation namespace is
>"overloaded". The problem that is most immediately urgent to fix is
>the question of introducing competition in name registration. Many of
>us would like to see a system that permits multiple competing entities
>to register names in .COM; some of us want systems that are based on
>having multiple top level replacements for .COM. Anyone arguing that
>.COM is overloaded, however, isn't speaking fact.
>
Besides which, the existence of a single top-level .com domain is a great 
simplification for users locating and memorising companies' servers. No doubt 
may ways could be found but it is a great kiss-miss feature of the Internet. It 
would be worth some pain to maintain it. (But by all means let's have a co.us 
for any US companies without multinational aspirations)

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Re: draft-isoc-dns-role-00.txt Dirk Fieldhouse