http://www.new.net/

[HAG.Keijzer at mindef.nl]

Standards, it's what you are missing.

People will always however try to make money out of everything, including
this kind of 'crap' (sorry folks, I don't have any other name for it).
Anarchy is nice, but old.

Why bother with RFC's when everybody is gonna do whatever they wanna do
anyways?
shrug

Kind Regards / Met vriendelijke Groet,

Gody Keijzer

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Peterson [mailto:petersonp at genrad.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 3:09 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org; aalang at rutgersinsurance.com
> Subject: Re: http://www.new.net/
> 
> 
> 
> > To: "Adam Lang" <aalang at rutgersinsurance.com>
> > From: Paul Jacobs <paul at netpacq.com>
> > Subject: Re: http://www.new.net/
> > Cc: <bind-users at isc.org>
> > 
> > 
> > Hmm... sell more websites to people with the names they want.....
> > Drive more traffic to your system thus get your name out there more.
> > 
> > Tell the government the internet will allways be free.... 
> etc.. etc....
> > 
> > At 01:01 PM 5/21/2001, Adam Lang wrote:
> > 
> > >Ok, this falls into a conversation I was having with 
> someone off list.
> > >
> > >For curiosity's sake, what are the reasons for supporting them?
> > >
> > >Adam Lang
> > >Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> 
> I'm missing a concept here somehow.  These guys invent their own top
> level domain names and assign me "coles.law" for my food company or
> "spam.med" for my junk E-mail business.
> 
> Fifty other people go to fifty other companies doing the same 
> thing and each
> gets these same highly desirable names assigned to themselves.
> 
> Now Joe Netuser comes along and uses an "xyz.coles.law" URI 
> and it seems
> like he has a 2% chance of hitting my site as opposed to one 
> of the other
> 49, depending on what bogus root servers managed to pollute his view
> of the Internet namespace in what order.
> 
> Is this useful?  Isn't uniqueness essential in Internet addresses?
> 
> What am I missing here?
> 
> 
>         pete peterson
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>