Re: [ga] Australian geographic domain names released

[Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 21, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> Andy Gardner wrote:
>
> > I hand-typed djacobson.com into a browser, and I got a godaddy  
> > parking page. How the hell do registrars get away with this sort  
> > of thing?
> To DNS www.foo.tld and foo.tld are entirely different names with  
> different resource record sets.
> It was suggested that one ought to use dns wildcards.  I don't.   
> It's too much of a blunderbuss approach for my liking.
> I sometimes use CNAME records to map all of the names I want a  
> given web server to be visible under and then use the ServerAlias  
> configuration to tell Apache to accept all of those.
> For purposes of search engine results I've been told that it is  
> even better to set up actual name-based virtual servers for each of  
> those names and have them do 301 permanent redirects to the desired  
> name. This is not quite as easy as the ServerAlias configuration of  
> Apache, but its not that much harder once you've learned how to set  
> up virtual hosts. (That's Apache virtual hosts, not virtual  
> machines a la VMware or Xen.)
Agree absolutely!

But in this case the REGISTRAR is making use of unallocated resources  
and making cash from it, possibly without the Registrants knowledge.
Does the Registrar Constituency have a code of ethics?