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On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:10:09AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin mailed:
> 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.
Uh, why couldn't the town just use <name>.nj.us or whatever the city specific
code was long ago and far way.
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