Re: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do

["A.M. Rutkowski" <amr@netmagic.com>]

At 02:14 PM 8/23/99 , John Charles Broomfield wrote:
>If NSI tomorrow demands US$10million to renew "aol.com", they might get sued
>by AOL, but AOL would most likely pay up in the meantime while seeking their
>legal remedies (hey, you don't suddenly want 14 million customers calling
>the hotline wondering why their email doesn't work, do you?).

This is a cute hypothetical, but would never happen in the
real business world.  Joint business relationships, contractual
provisions, and diverse potential causes of action by AOL
and the government would prevent this - for NSI or just about
anyone else.

In addition, it's likely that for any major DNS 2nd level zone
that got dropped from a TLD zone, it would quickly find itself
up in the root zone.  Similarly, if the COM zone didn't appear
in the root zone, it would find itself into an alternative
root referenced by named.root


--tony