14 Mar
2001
14 Mar
'01
7:21 a.m.
[... Blackholing new.net...] If we all do that (And yes I can see a significant [10%+] fraction of this group's readership doing it), then the problem goes away soon. An elegant fix, except that new.net would probably sue anyone who blackholed them...
Indeed they would. It is even likely that they'd win. Such action wouldn't win ICANN any favours in Congress either.
I am not an American and not really familiar with US laws and political thinking, but why is it that it is considered OKfor someone to break away from, ignore the DNS root system, but not for others to blackhole a player whose traffic they don't want to see. What laws would prohibit the latter while not affeting the former? Mathias