I think this is a given - although we misshandled it with a4d. -Zack
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > 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 > -- > Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 > The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think > Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 > > OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows > -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c >
