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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:36:31 PST, Vadim Antonov said: > > > 1) first-come first-served registration > > Unfortunately, the concept is totally borked right here, mostly > because of the use of DNS as a yellow-pages. Two companies that own > trademarks in different fields of business both have to register under > .COM (ok, so they *could* register under .US - hah), with the obvious > outcomes we've known to love and enjoy (Anybody remember who the > *original* owner of abc.com was?) > > There's no way you can pile 23 million (or however many it is now) things > into one level of namespace and actually expect people to play nicely. Yep, I agree. Replacing DNS completely with hyperlinks from various directories would be a good thing. But, unfortunately, most of the existing software won't work w/o DNS. --vadim
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