Re: databases and authentication.

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Denis Bucher allegedly said:
> 
[...]

> To create a new domain you do the following :
> 
> LOGIN
> Enter the domain
> If domain is free, it's allocated
> Give the datas (addresses, etc)
> LOGOUT
> 
> The domain is registered, and nothing can be changed !

Of course it can be changed.  I just dropped your entry.  You claim 
you sent it in, and can show logs, and I show the (falsified) 
database logs demonstrating you never made an entry.

Or, for you, no domain is ever free -- someone else always just 
allocated it -- my buddy over at your competing registrar.  Funny 
how that happens.

These are extreme and unlikely cases, of course -- because they are so
obvious.  And cheating in general is fairly unlikely.  But cheating in
forms that just introduce a bias for or against one registrar are
likely to be fairly successful. 

However, if you can algorithmically preclude cheating, that's a good 
thing.  



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