On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Mark M. Borchers wrote:
Here's an interesting twist. This company wants to operate a series of web sites named visit.<state>.com. They want everyone who holds a domain named after a state in the COM TLD to support the effort in DNS. There is repeated reference to potential advertising revenue, so this is a commercial venture.
The postscript states an intention on the part of USA Internet Gateway to register and enforce the hostname "visit" for any <state>.com domain. Sounds absurd, but you never know what will happen in the US legal system.
Mark Borchers InfiNet Network Engineering
Hmm. Actually, it seems like an excellent method for avoiding paying $100 for the registration of a domain with InterNIC. Could this be their motivation? ;-) -- Jonathan Kalbfeld Office: (415) 528-7116 System Developer Pager: (800) 796-7363 PIN 1022173 BBN Planet Corporation/Western Region http://www.bbnplanet.com/