RE: [wg-c] Recap from past threads...

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 11:07 PM 8/22/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>This is an excellent point. But, it is easier to rename than to
>renumber, by a bunch. I don't think SLD owners would hesitate to move to
>another TLD, on another registry, if there were such a beast.

Yup.  No publicity/marketing trouble at all for Amazon.com to rename.

And there certainly isn't a problem with embedded web references on 
thousands of pages that reference microsoft.com

Domain names are early binding.  IP addresses are late binding.  It's far 
easier to modify late-bound information.

sigh.

d/

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