This one is my fault. I put in-addr.arpa on the protected list, and didn't
think about operational non-dns infrastructure.
I can't tell you who to talk to over at NS, but since you all have latest
bind, and are cluefull on the VGRS wildcard hack, you all can limit the
effect that the "nanog" has in the .us root zone.
Eric (NS, 12/00 - 12/01, ironically, exactly 365 days)
[Regarding somebody's registration of nanog.us]
I can't tell you who to talk to over at NS, but since you all have latest
bind, and are cluefull on the VGRS wildcard hack, you all can limit the
effect that the "nanog" has in the .us root zone.
Uh... This appears to be a potential trademark law issue, except that I'm
not aware of Merit or anybody else ever claiming NANOG as a trademark.
Presumably, if this becomes a problem (somebody advertising alternate
"NANOG" conferences, for example), Merit's lawyers can deal with it. This
certainly isn't an operational issue, unless the word NANOG, independent
of context, is somehow of critical operational importance.
I suppose this is the slippery slope that's opened up when people start
blocking wildcards they don't like in their individual DNS servers, but as
one of those who was concerned about the effect on DNS consistency that
would have, I shudder to think what would happen if individual DNS
operators started doing trademark enforcement.
-Steve
Steve Gibbard writes on 11/3/2003 1:08 PM:
Uh... This appears to be a potential trademark law issue, except that I'm
not aware of Merit or anybody else ever claiming NANOG as a trademark.
Presumably, if this becomes a problem (somebody advertising alternate
"NANOG" conferences, for example), Merit's lawyers can deal with it. This
Well, at least one other netops conference is in the same boat - APRICOT2005.NET is registered to a domain squatter.
Zone Contact:
Administrator, Administrator info@apricot2005.net
Jakarta Jakarta
Jakarta Jakarta 10000
ID
PHONE: +62.4543534545 (FAX) +62.454542545
Registrant:
cybertiger
Jl. Jambu Mente NO. 1
Jakarta
Jakarta Jakarta
Jakarta Jakarta 10000
ID
Domain: APRICOT2005.NET
Registrar: DomainBank.com
Administrative Contact:
Administrator, Administrator info@apricot2005.net
Jakarta Jakarta
Jakarta Jakarta 10000
ID
PHONE: +62.4543534545 (FAX) +62.454542545
Technical Contact:
Administrator, Administrator info@apricot2005.net
Jakarta Jakarta
Jakarta Jakarta 10000
ID
PHONE: +62.4543534545 (FAX) +62.454542545
Record created on 2003-07-31
Record expires on 2005-07-31
Database last updated Mon Nov 03 13:31:00 EST 2003
Domain servers in listed order:
NS19.ZONEEDIT.COM
NS18.ZONEEDIT.COM