On Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 03:13:55PM +1200, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> At 06:36 23/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >I can tell you what it is: *none whatsoever*. Based on a multi-year
> >history, the InterNIC will not intervene in situations like this,
> >even if the domain's information is obviously falsified, and even if the
> >whole thing is obviously a spam setup.
>
> Surprisingly I had an immediate reaction from them.
>
> They copied me their traceroute
> [...]
> 11 ns2.propagation.net (209.150.129.121) 163 ms 137 ms 148 ms
>
> They removed the bogus phone number and have queried them about the false
> address info, asking them to update the record.
> >From a registry, can't really ask for more.
>
> Maybe they are getting sensitive.
They *WHAT*?!
I have entire mail folders full of responses from InterNIC quoting
a boilerplate response that says "...we do not police the Internet".
I even have a personal letter from one of the PHBs there that was
written response to one of mine, oh, about a year ago when the anti-spam
movement tried pummmeling them with public comment in order to get them
to do their job: maintain an accurate database.
I'm sitting here looking astonished and wiping coffee off my monitor.
This is amazing. Please, please, *please* send me (a) your letter
to them and (b) their letter to you. (Not because I don't believe
you; but because I want to share this with Spam-L. There are hundreds
of falsified domain registrations that we're aware of, and if somebody
there is actually willing to do their job, we want very much to talk
to them.)
Wow.
> Why so many people want .com adresses also has something to do with even
> greedier and restrictive national TLD monopolies.
Maybe. But I think there are other causes as well. One is to protect
them from use by unrelated entities, and that is largely caused by
InterNIC refusal to implement an effective policy and/or to
consistently enforce the mediocre one they already have.
Another is lack of understanding of the web: one common example is that
nearly every new movie that comes out has its *own* domain, which
is completely wrong and utterly bogus. (Web sites for movies should
be hosted within the releasing company's domain.)
And another is plain corporate stupidity; it's too early for me to
recall the particular company that did this (Proctor & Gamble?), but
they did not *need* to register several dozen domain names describing
the maladies that their products address.
And it just goes on and on. The InterNIC constantly whines about
what a huge job it is keeping track of all this (it's not: the entire
domain database is what I consider 'medium-sized', easily maintainable
*without* a database package) yet the same InterNIC is also allowing
and even encouraging the problem.
(Why? Profit. Did you know that the InterNIC actually considered
a public offering until howls of protest forced them to back off?)
This is why I have joined the many people who wish to see the InterNIC
replaced. I can't imagine that the task could be done any more badly
than it's being done now, so I'm willing to take the associated risk
on the premise that *maybe* things will get better.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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