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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. > And how would you define "productive" use? ALex
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