On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:25:35 BST, Tony Finch said:
George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
What bothers me is that most companies are now going to be forced to purchase .xxx domains simply to keep someone else from buying it and sullying the company's image.
Who is forcing them?
Do a 'whois ibm.biz', 'ibm.info', 'ibm.org', or 'ibm.us' ('ibm.net' appears to be slightly different) and ask yourself why those registrations exist. The only reason they exist is so that IBM can stick this in the DNS: ibm.info. 86400 IN TXT "Visit www.ibm.com for information about IBM products and services" ibm.info. 86400 IN TXT "v=spf1 mx/24 -all" ibm.info. 86400 IN MX 100 ns.watson.ibm.com. ibm.info. 86400 IN SOA ns.watson.ibm.com. dnsadm.us.ibm.com. 2010073000 21600 3600 1209600 86400 ibm.info. 86400 IN A 129.42.38.1 ibm.info. 86400 IN NS ns.watson.ibm.com. ibm.info. 86400 IN NS ns.almaden.ibm.com. 1.38.42.129.in-addr.arpa. 28800 IN PTR redirect.www.ibm.com. So some miscreant can't register 'ibm.biz' for themselves for lulz and profit. You don't think miscreants would do that? Might want to look into the checkered past of 'whitehouse.com' sometime.