[Novalug] Domain name blues

[Peter Larsen]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> While I like the freeness and openness of the Internet, I'm getting 
> really tired of there not being any good domain names to register simply 
> because people register them only to put up junk ad sites.  Do we have 
> any laws at all regarding cyber litter?

Stop thinking that only a top-domain will do, and you have your answer. 
For instance (and I'm *not* speaking for Tux here) if it's open source 
related, simply getting a host name under tux.org doesn't cost TUX 
anything. But of course, it means Tux has to agree to be semi-associated 
with what-ever site you have. Similar, any other top-domain can have any 
number of sub-domains and subs to those too. Lots of places like 
"perl.org" and other subjects could run a list of sub-domains and they 
alone would control access to it.

Secondary, there are lots of alternatives to ".com" ".net" etc.
.us for instance?

If you want a free market place, you have to accept that some will bet 
on the price of a "good name". You can't both have control and a free 
market. It's either one or the other. But look for alternatives. Google 
etc. doesn't care if it's a .net, .com, .us, .org etc. domain name. Or 
if it's a sub-domain ...

Regards
   Peter Larsen