Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!ge-rtp!edison!rja
From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Make official top-level 'UUCP' domain as stop-gap measure?
Summary: a bad idea
Message-ID: <1720@edison.GE.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 88 13:06:44 GMT
References: <5519@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Organization: GE-Fanuc North America
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In article <5519@saturn.ucsc.edu>, 
ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (scritzifchisted ulmo qzutvchsxik) writes:
> It occurs to me as a fairly good idea to register UUCP as an
> official top-level domain with the NIC as a temporary 'stop-gap'
> type measure, along with willing domain name servers for this domain
> using the UUCP Map data as source data for this information.
> MX's would be returned to an appropriate site for any requests to the
> ".UUCP" top-level domain.

  The idea that *.UUCP should be a domain is A Very Bad Idea.

  It has never been necessary to be on the Internet to have a real domain-name.
Here in town, there is a UUCP-only site fed by edison.ge.com via UUCP that
nevertheless has a real, registered name in the *.COM domain.  For small
sites, the *.US domain is even easier to register in.

  Folks who want to register in the *.US domain should send mail
to Westine@ISI.EDU.  Alternatively, if you sign up for UUNET, the 
folks there will help.

  The domain-name system is a large part of the answer, and *.UUCP has
never been a real domain.