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Re[2]: [ga-roots] was: Re[2]: [ga-icann] interesting California law to consider


Hello William,

Sunday, June 17, 2001, 1:02:35 AM, William S. Lovell wrote:

> The fundamental problem here seems to be the aura that is given
> to the term "legacy," as though that meant writ by the hand of God
> on stone tablets held by Moses (at least among Christians). That's
> merely what turned out to be a historic opener, and holds no sacred
> position whatever. (ICANN, of course, would have it be sacred.)
> (On the substance, copying is copying, whether done by ICANN or
> "Mom and Pop."  ICANN is after .biz, which happens already to
> be taken.)

dig @a.root-servers.net biz ns

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @a.root-servers.net biz ns 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      biz, type = NS, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       1D IN SOA       A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. hostmaster.nsiregistry.NET. (
                                        2001061601      ; serial
                                        30M             ; refresh
                                        15M             ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        1D )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 97 msec
;; FROM: elrond.dso.net to SERVER: a.root-servers.net  198.41.0.4
;; WHEN: Sun Jun 17 07:50:18 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 21  rcvd: 97

Doesn't look like it is taken to me.

Unless you mean to say that it is taken in someone else's private
namespace.  But that, of course, is irrelevant.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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