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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Hostname Scam
On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Mark M. Borchers wrote: > Here's an interesting twist. This company wants to operate > a series of web sites named visit.<state>.com. They want > everyone who holds a domain named after a state in the > COM TLD to support the effort in DNS. There is repeated > reference to potential advertising revenue, so this is > a commercial venture. > > The postscript states an intention on the part of USA Internet > Gateway to register and enforce the hostname "visit" for any > <state>.com domain. Sounds absurd, but you never know what > will happen in the US legal system. > > > Mark Borchers > InfiNet Network Engineering > Hmm. Actually, it seems like an excellent method for avoiding paying $100 for the registration of a domain with InterNIC. Could this be their motivation? ;-) -- Jonathan Kalbfeld Office: (415) 528-7116 System Developer Pager: (800) 796-7363 PIN 1022173 BBN Planet Corporation/Western Region http://www.bbnplanet.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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