Chuck Hatcher wrote on Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:30:09 -0400:
> I never heard any good argument in favor of it, and there are certainly many
> against it. It makes the registry the ultimate "typosquatter", and
> depending on how they use the traffic they may end up infringing trademarks
> on a wholesale scale. Not to even consider what they might do with the
> inside information of which unregistered domain names get how much valuable
> traffic. (Of course, those who run the GTLD servers potentially could have
> access to those statistics anyway.)
>
Not to mention that it breaks all applications depending on ns lookups for
host verification, f.i. Mail servers and anti spam tools.
Kai
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