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In message <[email protected]>, Shawn McMahon writes: > >On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:27:20PM -0800, Tony Hain wrote: >> More precisely, the courts started getting involved as soon as >> first-come-first-serve stopped working fine. > >No, someone involved the courts when they were second, and the courts >didn't understand so they didn't smack it back at the lawyers "dismissed >with prejudice". > >DNS didn't make the mess, the courts did. In my area of NJ, virtually every town's "obvious" .com domain names were grabbed by one of two competing would-be service providers. They had absolutely no town-specific content -- but if the town wanted a Web site, they had no choice but to deal with these folks. I have no major problem with first-come, first-served *productive* use of a domain name, but frankly, that's not where the problem has been. The problem has been speculators and cybersquatters. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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