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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Interesting new dns failures
On Mon, 21 May 2007 [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:38:56 -0000, [email protected] said: > > if you can get concensus to remove .com, i'm sure the roots would > > be willing to help out. > > Whose bright idea *was* it to design a tree-hierarchical structure, and then > dump essentially all 140 million entries under the same node, anyhow? :) > > I'll bet a large pizza that 90% or more could be relocated to a more > appropriate location in the DNS tree, and nobody except the domain holder > and less than a dozen other people will notice/care in the slightest. Now There's an interesting read from NRIC about this problem: "Signposts on the information superhighway" I think it's called. Essentially no one aside from propeller-head folks understand that there is something aside from 'com' :( take, for example, discussions inside the company formerly known as uunet about email addresses: "Yes, you can email me at [email protected]", "uunet.com?", "no, uu.net", "uu.net.com?", "nope, just uu.net". Admittedly it was with sales/marketting folks, but still :( I wonder how the .de or .uk folks see things? Is the same true elsewhere? -Chris
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