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Re: URL registerer - proposal for a new Internet Service




On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> For example, if I contact a URL registrer and asks for "Yahoo Homepage" I will get 
> "http://www.yahoo.com/". The need for such service derives from the fact that just as hosts 

1. warning - your long-lines emailer...
2. this is what 'virtual hosts' was supposed to fix. you should remember
   that if this service is transparent, one won't make money directly of
   offering it, and thus some fee for registering names should be
   collected. and this is exactly what is currently done with virtual
   domains. you'll be re-inventing the (steering) wheel of DNS.
3. you might say "but virtual hosts cost money" - well, no one will give
   you transparent registration for free. either you'll pay them just as
   much, or they'll make a non-transparent service (i.e. one where you
   have to see the link first and then choose it), and then it's yahoo.

guy


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