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Re: Namespace conflicts

  • From: Scott Gifford
  • Date: Fri Mar 09 18:57:03 2001

Saint skullY the Dazed <[email protected]> writes:

> AFAIK there is no way for you to register anything under
> ci.cityname.state.us unless you're affiliated with that city's
> government.  IMO, it makes sense to do that.

Errr...If somebody already has "cityname.state.us", they implicitly
have ownership of "ci.cityname.state.us".  They just have to add it to
their DNS zone files.

If it were "cityname.ci.state.us", it would be another story, but for
some strange reason that's not how it's done.

-----ScottG.