there you go!....so why not preserve one's name and some indentifier if
necessary to distinguish them from anyone else with the same name, from
being used by anyone else without their permission? Whether the person ever
registers or uses it would be up to them.
By the way, for those concerned about privacy, thought the terms of
agreement on GoDaddy when registering a domain name had some possibly
questionable language about use of your personal info. Will look for that
passage and post it. May be safer in the long run to even have government
automatically give you a unique domain name at birth than to have
corporations do this, with all the financial incentives to commercialize on
one's information.
My idea was to partly address a problem (among other things) that may
presently be causing problems because of people poaching other's names and
using it for commercial purposes. Someone with a name like John or Mary
Smith who is a child now would probably have no chance of having their name
available by the time they are a teenager, unless they paid ransom to some
cybersquatter or something. Why not ban this sort of thing, to preserve
people's cyber identity, which may be increasingly important in the future?
Randall
Randall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vicky Staubly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] born_with_it.??? [was: Grabbing domain names of
well-known persons?]
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, b_s-wilk wrote:
>And while we are at it, why not this: Every legal citizen would ( at
birth >or whenever this would be implemented for everyone else) be
automatically >registered with one domain based on their legal name,
with some unique >identifier to distinguish identical names.
This would be creepy.
The birth domain name will be placed on an RFID tag injected into all
newborns, until humans can be genetically modified to have domain names
built into our DNA. Would that mean that I wouldn't be allowed to have my
*.es *.ca and *.co.uk addresses or domains? Bad enough having spy cameras
everywhere.
Double creepy. Triple creepy.
Apparently, some parents out there are picking baby names based on
whether that domain name is available:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20378395/
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Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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