From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 11 14:42:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA08052 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:42:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA08031 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:41:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id XAA28491 ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 23:41:25 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id XAA25818 ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 23:41:18 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.3/keltia-uucp-2.7) id TAA08436; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 19:56:45 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199512111856.TAA08436@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for .freebsd.org To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 19:56:45 +0100 (MET) Cc: cross@math.psu.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512111514.PAA05518@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Dec 11, 95 03:14:30 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1419 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Paul Richards said: > How do they deal with non-profit organisations? Most of them only need the first domain so it is generally "given" by the provider when one buy the connection. > I'm just curious, the UK naming committee mailing list discussed naming > conventions a few months ago and I argued strongly against adopting a policy > of only allowing .co.uk names to be given to registered companies since there > a lots of legitimate bodies that might want a .co.uk domain name that are not > registered companies. It is legitimate but .fr is such a mess that the fact that the domain is a registered trade mark helps a lot. > Is this common around the world, has the UK got a half sensible policy > for once :-) Ohh, there's no charge in the UK either at the moment though > that was another thing under discussion. The problem in France is less that it is not free anymore but more that it is damn expensive. I have a domain with some friends that is reserved but not delegated. It would cost us 3000 FF to do it :-( -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #2: Sat Dec 9 19:14:38 MET 1995