Re: Apparent Fraud: Domain Name Survey

["Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>]

Sure, automated fully open FCFS is a bad idea at any level but certainly
can't be permitted at root.  The way the Internet is going these days,
several peole would write daemons to grab everything they could.  But wait
you say, we'll require them to have two DNS servers up.  My answer is that
its easy to have DNS servers that "serve" billions of domains if they don't
have to really have much unique data in them.  They can just ignore the
domain name queried in most cases or synthesize some "unique"  stuff based on
the domain name and always reply. But wait you say, you have these other
clever checks.  My answer is there is a clever way around it.  So the see-saw
would keep going and only be broken when there was a real person in the loop. 

In any case, since the primary purpose of the DNS is to provide *stable* and
menmonic or systematic names (*.in-add.arpa and *.tpc.int are systematic
examples, almost all others are menonic) you need to be very careful about
creating new root names.  As soon as there are a nontrivial number of
registrants in it, you are more or less stuck with it forever. 

Having a committe to filter/approve names is not so hard.  Ever state/country
I know of has a committee to decided if 666 or GOD or whatever can appear in
auot license plates, etc. 

Donald


On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Gert Blij wrote:

> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:44:41 +0200
> From: Gert Blij <gert@itst.co.za>
> To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>
> Cc: IAHC List <iahc-discuss@iahc.org>
> Subject: Re: Apparent Fraud: Domain Name Survey
> 
> > From: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd <dee@cybercash.com>
> > To: shaw <ROBERT.SHAW@ITU.CH>
> > Cc: iahc-discuss <iahc-discuss@iahc.org>
> > Subject: Re: Apparent Fraud: Domain Name Survey
> > Date: Friday, November 29, 1996 14:46
> > 
> > Thanks.  By the way, I have no particular problem with people buying and
> > selling domain names assuming that the use the names gets put to is
> > appropirate for the part of the domain name tree where the name is.  But
> I
> > think policies which enable people to grab every name in sight in hopes
> of
> > selling it to the highest bidder, particularly at the top and second
> level of
> > the domain name space, would be very ill advised. 
> 
> Any suggestions what to do about/against it?
> Gert
> 

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