On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Keith Davidson wrote:
Andy Linton wrote:
Yep that would be the way to do it. I suspect in reality though this would effectively kill co.nz etc as the vast majority of registrants would want to go from say telecom.co.nz to telecom.nz.
Given that the vast majority of registrants are in 'co.nz' anyway - the last number I saw was around 95%, I really find it hard to see what value the structure has anyway.
So are you suggesting that where there is only one name in the .co/org/net/gen/school/cri/govt/iwi etc namespace, it automatically also is allocated in the 2nd level, and all "multiple" names remain in their .co/net/org etc original form?
Not necessarily. One way might be: If there's no clash then give whoever has a name in .co/org/net/gen/school/cri/govt/iwi first refusal for say 30 days after the domain is created. If there's a clash and there's clear data about when a domain was created then give the respective holders first refusal based on the initial date of their registration or other reasonable evidence (say archived email sent and received using the domain). If the first date-sorted holder doesn't want it then ask the second and so on. Where there's still a clash (and I suspect by this stage the numbers are small) then come up with an arbitration process e.g. draw the names from a hat). In all cases, if no one wants it, then open it up to first come first served. At no stage is anyone compelled to jump into the new domain and if the old domains are going to die let them do so by natural atrophy. The time might come when people say "Oh you've go one of those early 'net.nz' domain names. How quaint!" If we had put this scheme in place then the people who wanted 'maori.nz', 'bank.nz', 'celt.nz', 'geek.nz' and so on would simply have registered them and we wouldn't need to have this totally useless debate every few months when someone decides that using the DNS as a pseudo yellow pages is a good idea. The above may not be the ideal algorithm for sorting this thing out but I'm sure it's not beyond the wit of man/woman to devize something that works. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog