http://www.new.net/

[Paul Jacobs]

Well it is totally voluntary....



At 06:08 AM 5/22/2001, Pete Peterson wrote:

> > To: "Adam Lang" <aalang at rutgersinsurance.com>
> > From: Paul Jacobs <paul at netpacq.com>
> > Subject: Re: http://www.new.net/
> > Cc: <bind-users at isc.org>
> >
> >
> > Hmm... sell more websites to people with the names they want.....
> > Drive more traffic to your system thus get your name out there more.
> >
> > Tell the government the internet will allways be free.... etc.. etc....
> >
> > At 01:01 PM 5/21/2001, Adam Lang wrote:
> >
> > >Ok, this falls into a conversation I was having with someone off list.
> > >
> > >For curiosity's sake, what are the reasons for supporting them?
> > >
> > >Adam Lang
> > >Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
>
>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?
>
>
>         pete peterson
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>
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>

Best regards,
Paul Jacobs /Senior Network Eng.
Commerce Service Provider (CSP)
Internet Presence Provider (IPP)
http://www.netpacq.com
mailto:paul at netpacq.com
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