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Re: Publication(was 60 day waiting peroid.)



David Collier-Brown allegedly said:
> 
[...]
>   Rather than inventing a new format, perhaps the existing
> DNS would suffice.
> 
>   Imagine, for a moment, doing a dns search for ``mycompany.XXX.tm.us''
> and finding an RP and a txt  record
> saying ``requested by boss@mycompany.com 28 July 1944 for My Company
> Inc., 123 Nowhere St., Podunk, Ohio, USA (416) 555-1212"
>   NO ns records, no mx, no backwards mappings, etc, etc.

It also has the fatal flaw that trademark conflicts are fuzzy 
matches, and DNS doesn't support fuzzy matches.

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