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From: guy@gorodish.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Use of domains by uucp sites
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Date: Sat, 31-Jan-87 01:43:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 31 01:43:43 1987
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Reply-To: guy@sun.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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>Doesn't this violate the RFC by failing to register with
>the domain above it?

Yes - but are these hosts on the Internet?  If not, there's not much
you can do about violations of the RFC; the Internet Patrol can't
really pull them over....

>Shouldn't there be new top level domains that dont confict with the DDN
>top level domains?

No, there should be some control over hosts that purport to belong to
a subdomain of one of those domains.  The theory is, I believe, that
those hosts (i.e., hosts not on the Internet but registered in some
subdomain of a DDN top-level domain) are really supposed to register
with somebody and get an MX record for them stuck into some name
server's database; I'd be inclined to say that if somebody just
invents a domain name that looks like a legal name, but doesn't
register and get MXed, they should be sued for false advertising.  It
may look cute and properly Official, but it's not clear it helps get
mail moved around, which is the whole purpose of this exercise.