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The Postmaster of bokonon (postmast@bokonon.UUCP) wrote:
: In article <robocop-3009951150430001@cs102-15.u.washington.edu> robocop@u.washington.edu (Jeff Leigh) writes:
: >The only problem with this is that you can still use a domain name without
: >registering it. This is solely dependant on your DNS and not having it
: >registered won't affect you at all. I can see a bidding war starting of
: >new companies that want to keep a database of domain names.

:    You're completely free to use a domain name without registering
: it - so long as you don't expect the rest of the Internet to be able
: to find you.

:    If your own DNS server has the information for your unregistered
: domain, then your own local queries will be satisfied by your own
: local DNS server.  Everything will work for you.

:    But let's say you call yourself foo.bar.com and don't register it.
: If someone elsewhere in the world wants to contact foo.bar.com,
: their query will generally go to a root nameserver (run by the
: folks who handle registrations).  If someone else has already
: registered bar.com, then it's _their_ DNS information which will
: be returned, and they will get your mail, your WWW traffic, etc.
: If nobody else has registered bar.com, then the root nameserver
: will simply say that there's no such domain, and _nobody_ will get
: your mail, your WWW traffic, etc.
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: | Stephen M. Dunn        |         {xrtll.UUCP|gts.org}!bokonon!postmaster|
: | Postmaster of Bokonon  |      (a.k.a. postmast or bokonon_mailer_daemon)|
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      Web Review reported last week that the company in charge
      of assigning domain names, Network Solutions Inc., had
      been acquired by Science Applications International
      Corp., a closely held company which has many former
      intelligence and defense officials on its board. Web
      Review raised questions about whether SAIC is acting as
      camouflage for the government. Users of the Internet,
      which was originally created as a communications medium
      for Defense Department researchers, are reacting to the
      news with hostility. "I don't want a spook corporation,
      particularly a private spook corporation, to be anywhere
      near a control point on the global cooperative
      Internet," says James Warren.

   "Internet Users Spooked About Spies' New Role."

      Web Review reported last week that the company in charge
      of assigning domain names, Network Solutions Inc., had
      been acquired by Science Applications International
      Corp., a closely held company which has many former
      intelligence and defense officials on its board. Web
      Review raised questions about whether SAIC is acting as
      camouflage for the government. Users of the Internet,
      which was originally created as a communications medium
      for Defense Department researchers, are reacting to the
      news with hostility. "I don't want a spook corporation,
      particularly a private spook corporation, to be anywhere
      near a control point on the global cooperative
      Internet," says James Warren.



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