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Languages in the Root: A TLD Launch Strategy Based on ISO 639

• Comment posted Oct 15, 2004 2:45 am PDT — by terastra
  Language-linked TLD's at first blush look like a good idea. Deeper down it is also quite a subversive idea, that will be welcomed as such, especially in Africa but also in countries like the Philippines and Indonesia, and even in…

Regime Change on the Internet: Conference Notes

• Comment posted Aug 18, 2005 1:26 am PDT — by terastra
  "Roles & Responsibilities of all stakeholders" Note the wording. Not "Rights and Responsibilities". Responsibilities are laid down, but nobody is about to formulate a Bill of Rights for individual Domian Name holders or content publishers on the internet. Until then,…

Is a Domain Name Property?

• Comment posted Dec 24, 2005 9:41 am PST — by terastra
  Yes, quite so. If you are on the side of the registries it becomes very interesting to deny anyone else the property rights that you could not get for yourself. In monopoly contracts of adhesion this is tempting to try.…

• Comment posted Dec 09, 2005 9:21 am PST — by terastra
  A Domain Name is the registrant's property. A disappointing article by Mr. Burshtein of Blake, Cassels and Graydon of Totonto,who is trying to tell us that Domain Names should not be regarded as property. I was looking forward to find…

Ongoing Internet Emergency and Domain Names

• Comment posted Apr 02, 2007 3:25 am PDT — by terastra
  Pardon my ignorance, but could you give an example of a "malicious Domain Name" (if this in itself would not be a breach of DNS security)?