RE: What DNS Is Not

["Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb () slac stanford edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bmanning () vacation karoshi com
> [mailto:bmanning () vacation karoshi com]
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:32 PM
> To: Patrick W. Gilmore
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: What DNS Is Not

...

>       notbeing Paul, its rude of me to respond - yet you posted this
>       to a public list ... so here goes.
>
>       Why do you find your behaviour in your domains acceptable and yet
>     the same behaviour in others zones to be "a Bad Thing" and should be
>     stopped?

Ok, devils advocate argument.  

Is there is a difference between being a domain "owner"
(Patrick wanting to wildcard the domain he has paid for),
and a domain "custodian" (Verisign for the .com example)
in whether wildcards are ever acceptable in the DNS
responses you provide?