On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:58:03AM -0700, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Goldberg, Joseph wrote:
> > I see that Ping registered deanspace.org, but shouldn't we register
> > deanspace.net as well, if for no other reason than to point it to .org
> > (or vice versa)?
> 
> I have both (for exactly that purpose).

I apologize, but this is one of my buttons.  *Please* do not alias the
second-level domain name space.  It creates *horrible* incorrect expectations
in the minds of untrained users.  If you feel the need to register them both,
use them in the fashion originally intended: reserve .net for infrastructural
machine names and other things invisible to the public.  At worst, alias
*everything* in one of them to the *root* of the other.

In practice, you're not really protecting yourself from anything unless you
register deanspace.*, and (luckily), that's not practical.

Cheers,
-- jra
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