Re: OT: HEADS-UP: viral storm out there

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OT: HEADS-UP: viral storm out there
Date: 2003-09-23 17:28:04
Message-ID: 20030923172804.GO9893@libertyrms.info
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:42:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com> writes:
> > In keeping with being off topic, how do people feel about Verisign
> > wild-carding the .com and .net domain names so any miskeys

> voting with your feet: if you still have any domains registered via
> Network Solutions, reregister them elsewhere, immediately.

Note that, while NSI is indeed a VeriSign company, VGRS (VeriSign
Global Registry Services, the registry people) are the ones doing
this, _not_ Network Solutions. That is, the action is at the
registry, not the registrar.

NSI competes to register names as a registrar. VGRS has no
competition in running .com or .net registries, however, except
insofar as people register domains in other top-level domains.
I'm not in the marketing department here, though, so I'll not suggest
other top level domains you might want to use. For the record, I am
not expressing any view on whether the wildcard idea is a good one,
although I certainly have an opinion on the matter.

A

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