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From: Thor Kottelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: reasoning for naming restrictions
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 06:55:30 +0200
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Vin Diaz wrote:
>
> "Alan J Rosenthal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Well then, since $70 obviously does not pay for the cost of maintaining
> > that domain name information on name servers around the world, the domain
> > name registrant should not get to say how it is used.
> There are 13 root servers
> in the world, and 10 million domain names, each of which costs $35 a year.
Those root servers are useful only because thousands of other name servers
not funded by NSI voluntarily choose to use them.
Obviously, the common good dictates using a common root zone. However, for
the sake of argument, say I configure the name server on my workstation
with an alternative root domain and reallocated gTLDs. Say 10^[0-9] other
people decide to use that root. Say we launch it globally, calling it
Internet2k or something, attempting to make it *the* common root zone. Say
we actually manage to do that - where does that leave the person who
thinks he owns the domain he "bought" from an ICANN registrar?
$70 only buys the services of NSI, and AFAIK, NSI doesn't own the
alphabet, especially not globally. You can pay NSI to insert a couple of
NS entries into a zone file, but you can't buy a domain any more than you
can buy exclusive rights to the first name Vin.
Thor
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