[geeks] .hk, .cn, .info considered harmful

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Thu Jun 5 12:01:52 CDT 2008


> Well, in some cases (.cm, .ws being particularly good examples),
> geographic location is comparatively irrelevant

True.

> compared to who controls the TLD the machine is registered under.

Machines aren't under TLDs; names are.  Machines<->names is even
farther from a bijection than addresses<->names is.  (At work, for
example, we have a couple of machines which have multiple hundreds of
addresses each, doing webservice for even more domains than that, the
domains scattered across at least three or four TLDs.)

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