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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
> For a smaller company, or one with less offices, it might make >sense for their domain name to be geographical, for example cisco.sf.ca.us >or nytimes.ny.us. Excuse me, but both companies mentioned are multinational...even "small" companies are geographically disparate. I think we all agree heirarchy==good. The thing we haven't figured out yet is how to apply that heirarchy in an inoffensive way. Geography is not a good choice, it has the pungent smell of europe in the 1800's (aka ISO). ISP would be a good choice if it were constant and there was a true heirarchy there. Just to be obnoxious, let me state the ugly obvious programatic mapping... use the first 2 or 3 letters in the 2nd layer domain name. cisco.com = cisco.ci.com nytimes.com = nytimes.ny.com real-routers.com = real-routers.re.com Since this is a purely implied and programatic mapping, the particularly -cute- thing we can do is automagicly map this crud so no user ever has to see the abomonation "cisco.ci.com". We have certainly taken a solid whack at the root DNS server overload "problem". The disadvantage is we haven't solved the namespace collision problem, but I see that as one for the lawyers to solve, not us bit twiddlers.
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