Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:55:39 +0300 From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il> Message-Id: <199604251155.OAA34257@rex.ibm.net.il> To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: TLDs Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu Precedence: bulk
Can we drop this TLD stuff? There are serious legal questions on this entire matter. For those who want to follow up on this see: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/lc/internic/domain1.html for the most comprehensive legal Web on the domain issue.
There is even discussion for a solution: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/lc/internic/prob1.html
Hank Nussbacher
I checked that website and it's all about issues of trademarks and domain names conflicting... but that's only one facet of the entire "cluttered namespace" problem. Other facets seem to be scalability, and just plain "what happens when the namespace is full? what then?". IMHO, the perceived problem with cluttering the namespace is at least fairly self-correcting - at some point (possibly already reached) .com will be basically filled (filled meaning having few or no desirable domain names) so there will be grousing until some one with a 2nd lvl domain starts selling subnames... now it'll have to be a good 2nd lvl domain to make any money, but deli.com, for instance, could sell stans.deli.com, kosher.deli.com, etc... if it becomes common and easy to do, then even people who don't sell domains as their main business could do so upon request to generate a little extra revenue... --Paul