For the record I merely consider such selling of domain names unwise for various reasons I won't belabor here again. The proof of that will or won't be in the pudding. My problem is with such domains becoming so poorly managed that they become the stock in trade of some of the worst sorts of spammers and other criminals. In essence that complaint isn't that different than dial-up internet sites who won't check who they're giving instant accounts to, and (no surprise) find that accounts are created hourly to spam and commit other abuses without any traceability or accountability. I suppose if someone argued that this is all the result of serious flaws in the net's blue-sky engineering I couldn't tell them they were wrong. However, here we are, and about the best we have is to try to create at least some minimum of accountability even if that only means not handing out weapons of mass destruction because we can't figure out how to prevent every fistfight (so why bother trying to stop anything, the reasoning seems to go...) -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | http://www.world.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 *oo* On October 5, 1998 at 20:29 nanog@frednet.net (nanog@frednet.net) wrote:

Look out -- if the .to TLD wasn't enough for you, then the next problem TLD could end it all. The same folks who are running the .to TLD appear to have the .tv TLD too. Didn't a few of us post something about preventing this from being a problem back in October 1995 on domain-policy?

How much do you suppose NBC [might have] paid for the NBC.TV domain name?

-fjb

|ihnp4% nslookup -type=ns tv. |Server: ns.frednet.net |Address: 199.248.239.1 | |Non-authoritative answer: |tv nameserver = NS1.TDC.TO |tv nameserver = NS1.NERVESYS.COM | |Authoritative answers can be found from: |NS1.TDC.TO internet address = 206.86.247.250 |NS1.NERVESYS.COM internet address = 209.24.6.2

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