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[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:08:59AM -0400, Pete Peterson wrote:
...
> I'm missing a concept here somehow.  These guys invent their own top
> level domain names and assign me "coles.law" for my food company or
> "spam.med" for my junk E-mail business.
> 
> Fifty other people go to fifty other companies doing the same thing and each
> gets these same highly desirable names assigned to themselves.
> 
> Now Joe Netuser comes along and uses an "xyz.coles.law" URI and it seems
> like he has a 2% chance of hitting my site as opposed to one of the other
> 49, depending on what bogus root servers managed to pollute his view
> of the Internet namespace in what order.
> 
> Is this useful?  Isn't uniqueness essential in Internet addresses?
> 
> What am I missing here?

Not a blessed thing.  In fact, you're exactly right.  The whole
utility of root name servers is that they are in fact THE "root" name
servers.

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