On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:14:18AM +1000, Robert Maldon wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>
> > Heh heh ... a real can of worms that one. The only system that seems
> > to work is awarding names on a first come first served basis, but
> > only where there is a demonstrable connection between the domain name and
> > the owner of the domain name.
>
> The real issue with domain names is not really ownership but how you go about
> resolving name clashes. e.g. Terry Collins wants "www.collins.com" and so
> does Collins Bookshop.
As far as I'm concerned, collins bookshop get the .com and terry can have
they .org. A person isn't a commercial entity imo.
it's the lack of realisation that the last three letters on the
-international- domain space actually could have some sort of meaning
that has led to a large amount of the stupidity that we see today.
> An alternative to the current system is the ".id.au" domain (see www.id.au).
> This alternative allows the creation of flora-and-fauna subdomains, such as
> "gumtree.id.au" and "koala.id.au". The Collins clash could be resolved by
> giving Terry Collins the domain "collins.gumtree.id.au" and Collins Bookshop
> the domain "collins.koala.id.au".
I thought of getting one of these but I don't like the idea of having my
base domain being the 4th one down the line and my hostnames even lower.
too much typing.
> The only disadvantage I can think of with the above alternative scheme is that
> it will take longer to guess "collins.koala.id.au" rather than
> "collins.com.au". (And a company probably would want a more professional
> sounding name than "koala.id.au").
yes, probalby and see above comment.
also, ppl may think it's great that they now can have:
www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com but
I'd like to see a. how many ppl can actually spell it (apart from the
welsh ;) and b. if they could even bother trying.
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