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In message <[email protected]>, "Bryan C. Andregg" writes: > >--sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >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= >=20 >> grabbed by one of two competing would-be service providers. They had=20 >> absolutely no town-specific content -- but if the town wanted a Web=20 >> site, they had no choice but to deal with these folks. I have no major= >=20 >> 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=20 >> been speculators and cybersquatters. > >Uh, why couldn't the town just use <name>.nj.us or whatever the city specif= >ic >code was long ago and far way. They grabbed those, too. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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