Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:43:37AM -0500,
 Joe Abley <jabley () ca afilias info> wrote 
 a message of 25 lines which said:

> Back in the day, pre-CIRA, .CA was managed according to rules which
> included the restriction that a single company was only allowed one
> domain name.

Same thing in ".fr", until 2000. 

> I think that policy was good for the DNS, but it was apparently
> widely hated by everybody else,

The big problem with this rule is that you have to define what is "a
single company". It is easy (especially for a big company like the one
you mention) to find or set up "fronts" to register more domain
names.