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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:55:08 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum said: > On 18-jul-2005, at 22:49, Brad Knowles wrote: > > Like Verisign, the people who pay the bills are not the end-user > > consumers of e-mail addresses and web browsers, and many of the > > bill-payers are likely to be the sort of people who would want to > > encourage confusion. > > I don't believe the major TLDs with million+ names registered are > short sighted enough to think it's a good idea to encourage confusion. This would be the same TLDs that don't censure registrars with a long track record of registering domains for known phishers and spammers and the like, right? > > You're a customer of an ISP. You know nothing about how to run > > your own nameserver. Just how exactly do you expect to have > > control over your own named.root? > > Buy some books at oreilly.com? I'd cue a Randy Bush audio clip, if only I knew that only the offender's ISP's phone would ring. Unfortunately, this isn't the case.... What percent of the Joe Sixpacks out there could sucessfully manage their named.root given a copy of 'DNS for Idiots' without generating at least one trouble ticket? Also, what do the experiences of people who had to deal with getting themselves out of 69/8 bogon filters or thousands of different SMTP blacklists tell us about the wisdom of having a large number of these sorts of things sitting where end users can mangle-and-forget? Remember - most land mines are detonated by civilians long after the war is over..... Attachment:
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