Chris,

Good point.

It's worse in a way - in that if it occurs at a registry level, then
the registry has an absolute monopy.  But you're right - I've
always considered the Microsoft thing kind of annoying (though
the technical implementation of each method is different -
they have a near-monopoly of the browser market anyway). 
Microsoft is certainly a big loser out of this - which is hard to
lose sleep over in itself.

In either case: if done properly, it could be a useful service,
but it can easily degenerate into a form of tyopsquatting,
Even worse, if if they allow ads targetted at specific
domains - then it's essentially providing a second-tier
registration service - and one that is essentially unregulated.
It is this factor that I find most worrying.

Kirk


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Disspain" <ceo&#167;auda.org.au>
To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:37 PM
Subject: RE: [DNS] Change to operation of .com and .net DNS service


> Bruce,
> 
> Is this the same as Microsoft have already been doing for some time?
> 
> 
> Chris Disspain
> CEO - auDA
> ceo&#167;auda.org.au
> www.auda.org.au
>