[Courses] [Domains] Choosing a domain name

Devdas Bhagat devdas at dvb.homelinux.org
Sat Jun 12 20:47:31 EST 2004


On 12/06/04 16:08 +1000, Mary wrote:
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> My personal inclination is to explain this as due to an (understandable) lack
> of foresight by the original designers of this system. They don't seem to have
> considered that individuals would one day want a domain name. Nor was there
> space for *products* (like movies or soft drinks) to have their own domain
> name.
Uh? It has always been trivially easy to add a new domain to the DNS
roots. The original designers would have considered this as an example
set which could easily have been split into more entities. The original
designers knew that that they didn't know enough and left space for
growth.
The killing of the domain namespace has been due to the policies of
Internic (as it was then), Network Solutions, Verisign, and ICANN who
found the sudden commercial growth to be a cash cow while top level
domains were limited.

Devdas Bhagat

PS: If anyone is leasing a domain name (note that you don't buy a domain
name), then don't lease in .biz. The .biz TLD has been so abused by
spammers^Whigh volume email deployers, that it is generally drop on
sight.


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