Instead of charging, would a better idea be to get the registry to remove their pattern matching code? Personally it has never helped me and has always caused problems and confusion. If I say:
% whois anything.com I want the whois for anything.com nothing more and nothing less. this takes away the major (only?) incentive for creating these host records. -joe P.S. Why am I not surprised that anything.com is owned by someone in the Grand Caymans... metariffic. George Kirikos wrote: > Hi, > > I notice a few registrants are creating hundreds, if not thousands of > vanity nameserver hosts, presumably to get traffic from folks who do a > simple WHOIS on a domain name from a command prompt. > > e.g. open a new shell if you're a Mac user and type: > > whois anything.com > > and you'll see: > > ANYTHING.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM > ANYTHING.COM > > It's exploiting the pattern matching performed by default at Internic. > It's a minor annoyance encountering these everyday, but perhaps > registrars should start enforcing some limits before it becomes an even > bigger problem? > > If not, it's the domain tasting saga all over again, and before you > know it everyone will start creating tends of thousands of these > records per domain multiplied by tens of thousands of domain names. > > Anything free tends to get abused, so perhaps it's time to start > charging for these extra vanity hosts that clog up the WHOIS database, > to have an economic solution? > > Sincerely, > > George Kirikos > http://www.kirikos.com/ > _______________________________________________ > domains-gen mailing list > [email protected] > http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
