RE: new.net

[Ken Eddings <eddingsk () apple com>]

No don't do that.  I get too much mail from well-meaning folks that 
think our registry records have been hacked.

No.  I usually depend on Network Solutions to hack our records, ;-)

Cheers,


At 4:59 PM -0800 3/8/01, Mathew Butler wrote:
> You -could- always do the whois-type thing, where ALL records 
> containing 'apple' are returned, on first access to the name?
>
> -Mat Butler
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Lockhart [<mailto:simonl () rd bbc co uk>mailto:simonl () rd bbc co uk]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 2:32 PM
> To: richb () pioneer ci net
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: new.net
>
>
>
>  >Therefore any company which creates a broader hierarchy is not motivated
> > by what's best for Internet users, who are best served by a simple
> > hierarchy (IBM is IBM is IBM no matter what you append to it). 
>
> Okay. You picked an example which proves your point. However, there's
> plenty of exceptions. Who should have "apple" in this flat namespace?
> Apple Computers? Apple Records? Apple Fruitstore?
>
> While the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a fairly well-known
> name worldwide, what gives us more claim to "bbc" in the flat namespace
> than "Big Blue and Cousins" or "Baptist Bible College" (bbc.org and
> bbc.edu respectively)? Have we now got bbc.com because we had a greater
> claim to it, or because we had the better lawyers?
>
> Simon
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