] ] "Competitive Bidding for new gTLDs" is the focus of part ] three of a three-part series based on a study prepared by ] Karl M. Manheim, Professor of Law at Loyola Law School ] and Lawrence B. Solum, Professor of Law at University of ] San Diego. Special thanks and credit to Hastings ] Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 25, p. ] 317, 2004. The more I read of this, the more I think its a *bad idea*... DNS is not a directory service or "internet keyword" service ... its function is to say "the machine named 'foo' has network address 'bar'" We really need another layer of name/keyword/directory service to provide these features. An Economic Analysis of Domain Name Policy - Part III |