Re: 60 day waiting period

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 7:51 PM -0500 12/20/96, Carl Oppedahl wrote:

As someone who has done this for domain names and newsgroups for many
major motion pictures, the 60 days will be factored in very quickly if
this becomes a reality. We faced this problem back in 1994 (long ago)
in the time it took to set up new newsgroups for the studios. When a
newsgroup was created in a hurry, most sys admins refused to carry it
on principle. By following the correct proposal process (which takes
about 45 days to be on the safe side) most new newsgroups got created
and carried by all.

Having said that, the 60 day wait as proposed by IAHC is wrong for DNS,
because there is no distinction between famous and not-so famous marks.
There's a better solution that we came up for that works really well
for famous marks, with provisions for lesser well-known marks. I'll try
and dig it up.

> Well, the waiting period will force companies to think about third-level
> domains.  A movie company that suddenly realizes it wants a web page for
> its movie "Volcano" will rush to register volcano.com, only to be told that
> it takes 60 days.  The company will then ask around and someone will say,
> hey, there is this thing you never thought about called a third-level
> domain, and you can get it *instantly*, all you need to do is add a line of
> code to your *own* domain name server.  No waiting period, no paying NSI
> $100, no wondering if NSI will get the application processed quickly.
> After a few years of this, hopefully the companies with 50 or 100 brands
> will finally catch on that higher-level domains make sense.  And the public
> will get used to it also.



Simon

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