Re: Hijacked Domain Names?

[johnl@iecc.com (John R Levine)]

> [wrt the "Alternic" ]

> Can we take it that these domains are currently deemed to be "on loan" to
> these unauthorised (by IANA) organisations, and that when the time comes
> for IANA to allocate TLD's in due process these "hijacked" domains will
> be available for all to apply for equally, or will it be a case of
> "possession is 9/10 of the law" and the "alternative" organisations fully
> expect to retain their pre-empted gains?

Neither.  The Alternic's activities are irrelevant, since none of the
addresses which they say they have registered can be resolved by the 99+%
of the net which use the nine well-known DNS roots at ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

If the IAHC decides to add new TLDs, there's no reason the Alternic can't
apply to be a registry for some of the new TLDs, but there's no reason to
treat their application any differently than anyone else's.


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