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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
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Subject: Re: How serious is the at->@ problem?
Message-ID: <1989Nov25.223227.16124@twwells.com>
Date: 25 Nov 89 22:32:27 GMT
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: >Strictly speaking, Manchester's astronomers have registered a semi- illegal
: >name. You are not allowed to register a domain name that is already used
: >as a higher-level domain name. If the .at domain was registered in the
: >British name scheme (it isn't - sigh), 'at.man.ac.uk' would be illegal.

Frankly, I don't believe this. It implies that one who assigns a
higher level domain name be aware of all lower level domain names
-- even those not in his domain. This is inconsistent with my
understanding of the rationale of the domain name system.

Someone care to quote chapter and verse?

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