Re: mlds and nameserver modification

From: John Keegan (john@rackshare.com)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 20:37:36 EST


> The real question is, will it make a difference in the future? What would
> prevent these "improperly" registered domains from eventually being used as
> mlds? How will the character set info contained in the registry info matter?
> Will it be possible to convert a "bad" domain into a properly registered
> mld? If so, then it would seem that all those domains which were registered
> prior to the opening of mld service by Verisign were on to something, other
> than just blocking the registration of the good names.

I've already gotten some answers elsewhere to this question I posed. In
essence, the RACE encoding scheme may not be the final encoding for mlds,
and even if it is bq-- would probably not be the final prefix. So anyone who
has registered a bq-- domain as ASCII text will have a worthless domain.

-- 
John Keegan
john@RackShare.com
http://RackShare.com



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