🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 02 Apr 1998 18:38:35 GMT, w.sheehan@worldnet.att.net (Bill
Sheehan, Jr.) wrote:

>
> The problem is, who OWNS the domain name wosm.org? A few years ago
>anybody who had access to the internet could register a domain,
>whether they were entitled or not.  "Weird Old Shoe Mechanics" could
>have registered that name, and to my way of thinking were entitled. A
>few enterprising individuals went out an registered hundreds or
>thousands of domain names, and then offered to sell the rights to use
>them. Large corporations, like say Frito or Pepsi, were forced to buy
>the rights to use there own trade marked name. There is currently a
>move afoot to globalize the domain registry, and taking it out of the
>hands of the original US group. Some here in the US and outside the US
>fell that opening up to other domain registries would open up the
>available domains, others feel that it will just cause even more
>confusion (would you search Pepsi.com, or Pepsi.bus or Pepsi.inc) 
>
I have been told by someone who knows someone who wrote an article on
the subject that this is not true. It is some kind of urban myth, but
then again I haven't talked to anyone from interNIC.