On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:55:08 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum said:
On 18-jul-2005, at 22:49, Brad Knowles wrote:
Like Verisign, the people who pay the bills are not the end-user consumers of e-mail addresses and web browsers, and many of the bill-payers are likely to be the sort of people who would want to encourage confusion.
I don't believe the major TLDs with million+ names registered are short sighted enough to think it's a good idea to encourage confusion.
This would be the same TLDs that don't censure registrars with a long track record of registering domains for known phishers and spammers and the like, right?
You're a customer of an ISP. You know nothing about how to run your own nameserver. Just how exactly do you expect to have control over your own named.root?
Buy some books at oreilly.com?
I'd cue a Randy Bush audio clip, if only I knew that only the offender's ISP's phone would ring. Unfortunately, this isn't the case.... What percent of the Joe Sixpacks out there could sucessfully manage their named.root given a copy of 'DNS for Idiots' without generating at least one trouble ticket? Also, what do the experiences of people who had to deal with getting themselves out of 69/8 bogon filters or thousands of different SMTP blacklists tell us about the wisdom of having a large number of these sorts of things sitting where end users can mangle-and-forget? Remember - most land mines are detonated by civilians long after the war is over.....