Miata Mailing List: December 1999, Message #259

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Thanks Brian, interesting info.  Yes I understand domain names are not
URL's, as someone else already pointed out to me, just a lazy misnaming
on my part.

I heard about the speculating and the time thing.  Guess the guy on the
news today beat it, huh??  Sold Business.com for something like 7
million dollars today.

"Brian P. Van Lieu" wrote:
> 
> Larry Alster wrote:
> 
> > samueh01@MCRCR6.MED.NYU.EDU wrote:
> >
> > Herb
> >
> > Thanks for the info.  I didn't know it was voluntary.  Was under the
> > misconception that whoever gave out unique URL's also made sure that the
> > suffix's were set in the method that indicate business or not.
> >
> 
> Some clarification of what is going on behind the scenes.
> 
> No one gives out URLs. URLs utilize a domain name. Domain
> names are where its at ;)
> 
> Domain Name registration has been a heated topic for some time.
> 
> The InterNIC used to be the authority for names and numbers.
> 
> Network Solutions owns domain registration now (ARIN owns numbering).
> Their are guidelines for domain names based off of RFCs and recommendations
> that
> date back into the 80's (I don't have the RFC numbers off hand).
> 
> As indicated, popular top level domains were .gov, .edu, .com,
> org, .net and the country designations (.uk, .au, etc...).
> 
> Those are top level domains.
> 
> Miata.net is not named as to the recommendations. Should
> be miata.com, or if it was totally non-profit miata.org.
> 
> Net is supposed to be for service providers.
> 
> But miata.net still has a nice ring, and we are quite used to it  ;)
> 
> As for brainstorm using miata.org, its just like the porn
> site that registered whitehouse.com: a clever, albeit cheesy
> way to get people to hit their site by accident. At least
> the porn drivers registered with the recommended nomenclature
> <poke> :)
> 
> BSP should stick with brainstormproducts.com or whatever.
> 
> Think about it: the owner of this registry charges money each
> year (used to be $50, I think its been lowered to $35 not) for a person
> to register a domain.
> 
> 1,000,000 domains a year means $35MM of easy money. I am sure
> their overhead does not approach 30MM. Its a couple of database
> servers, redundant storage, and admins.
> 
> Not hard for someone to quickly jump in and say: lets get a piece
> of that pie and create new top level domains such as .biz for businesses,
> etc...
> 
> Something NS is cracking down on is domain name speculators (those
> that years ago registered mcdonlands.com and such in anticipation of
> brokering it in the future). I believe you are required to actually have
> X number of hosts on the domain you register within a certain amount
> of time, else you can get yanked from registration.
> 
> A long over-due move really.
> 
> - b, who has been teaching DNS some customers
> 
> --
> Brian P. Van Lieu
> 95 Frost GSR Coupe - Philly Region SCCA ST1 #88
> 92 Sunburst Miata #1035 - Not CS legal anymore <grin>
> 
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> 
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Larry

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