>>>>> "Bassett," == Bassett, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bassett,> One more update ( sorry for the multiple postings.. Bassett,> So looks like whois.godaddy.com whois.gandi.net and Bassett,> whois.itsyourdomain.com are the offenders. No, you can register such names with *any* registrar, even Internic^Wnetsol^Wverisign. The point is that the whois lookup finds substrings, not anchored strings. And you can't remove the ability to register such names, because who are you to say that I don't have a machine named "microsoft.com.stonehenge.com", anyway? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
