Re: [ga] WLS: Dotster posts the definitive arguments against it, and more

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

Thursday, July 11, 2002, 9:10:53 AM, L. Gallegos wrote:
> While it could be difficult if .COM fell off the face of the earth, it would
> not stop the internet nor would it stop the DNS.  People would simply 
> have to (1) temporarily publish their IP addresses for websites, (2) 
> temporarily use their ISPs for email addressing and inform their 
> customer mailing lists, (3) obtain a domain in another TLD, (4) 
> nameservres using .COM domains would have to change to other 
> domains.  A mess for a short time, sure.  Irrecoverable, no.

> The interent would go right on working.

That is very naive, Leah.

While it may suit the alternative roots to believe and/or promote
that, the fact is that the impact of .com on the internet at large is
HUGE, and any discounting of it like your statement above is just not
based in reality.



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