On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 rasmus@vex.net wrote:
> > Hasn't netscape stated they will be dropping this "feature"? Or was
> > I just reading some root-64/alternic babble where they were *hoping*
> > the "feature" would be dropped so that their anarchistic attempt
> > to form new top-level domains would gain a hair more credibility than
> > it has now.
>
> Microsoft had the feature at some point, but decided to drop it.
> I haven't read whether or not Netscape is planning on dropping it.
> I am not convinced either way whether it is a good feature or not.
> I don't think it is harmful or dangerous in any way though, and people
> have asked for it, so in the spirit of Apache, I thought it would be a
> user-friendly thing to add. If that's not the concensus, no problem.
> We can drop it.
My personal opinion is that it should at least be made a runtime configurable
option in the proxy, or dropped altogether. I think that kind of behavior
prevents opening up of new top-level domains, as well as deprecating the use of
.net, .org, .edu, etc. It's a regressive act in my opinion.
Brian
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