On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 07:21 PM, Edward Yardley wrote:
I've always noticed that nz.com have a * entry, which could be seen as just reserving what belongs to the owner (ie *.nz.com) but doing it to the whole .com etc name space is just whacking the ball out of court.
The registrant of the nz.com namespace has leased that domain for a certain fixed period and (subject to certain restrictions) is allowed to do whatever they like with it. Verisign has not leased the com/net namespace. They are PAID TO MANAGE IT. If they run their business so badly that they can't make a profit on US$6 per domain per year, then they should give up the contract and get out of the zone management business, not hijack the zone to the detriment of the entire Internet community. (Hurrumph.)