Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 1:27 PM -0800 12/23/96, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Brad Templeton wrote:
>
> > Has anybody suggested they would find a random string in a domain name
> > acceptable if there is an alternative?
>
> A random string in a domain name is simply not acceptable at all. It
> ceases to be a name once random strings are injected and becomes no better
> than an IP address. Now I know the technologists will object that IP
> addresses are substantially different from domain names and that a random
> string in a domain name does not affect the technical operation of the
> DNS. They are missing the point.
>

Michael's right.


Simon

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