In message <20010309100228.A2521@redhat.com>, "Bryan C. Andregg" writes:

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On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:10:09AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin mailed:

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In my area of NJ, virtually every town's "obvious" .com domain names were= =20 grabbed by one of two competing would-be service providers. They had=20 absolutely no town-specific content -- but if the town wanted a Web=20 site, they had no choice but to deal with these folks. I have no major= =20 problem with first-come, first-served *productive* use of a domain name, but frankly, that's not where the problem has been. The problem has=20 been speculators and cybersquatters.

Uh, why couldn't the town just use <name>.nj.us or whatever the city specif= ic code was long ago and far way.

They grabbed those, too. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb