.Mac

[Nathan Kelley]

To OmniWeb Users <omniweb-l at omnigroup.com>,

>>> From: Julien Jalon <jalon at mac.com>,
>> From: Dan Lowe <dan at tangledhelix.com>,
> From: Michael Brewer <antispam at carolina.rr.com>,

>>> My two €s here:
>>> the .Mac change may have something to do with the future VPN feature 
>>> of Jaguar. Imagine that Apple proposes a global mac "VPN" with all 
>>> mac computers getting a .mac hostname (e.g.: myitoolsname.mac).
>>
>> ICANN would never approve that, and I'm not sure I see any point in it 
>> if
>> it's not visible at the root.  Only other Mac users would be able to 
>> see
>> it; and only those who joined in the VPN.  Actually, it would probably 
>> fuel
>> the stereotype some people have of Mac users as being arrogant and 
>> elitist.
>
> ICANN doesn't need to. There are plenty of alternative DNS servers 
> providing TLDs. All Apple would need to do is include support for those 
> DNS servers in Mac OS X.

Yes, I agree that it could add value to owning a Mac, and it could have 
some advantages. A good piece was posted recently on oso about why, 
however, this sort of thing is still ultimately a bad idea:

<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/18499.html>

I noticed that in the comments for that story a comment had been posted 
about .mac already...

Cheers, Nathan.
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(p.s. Yes, I know, off-topic for OmniWeb... I normally like to keep 
on-topic but a little divergence here and there is a good thing, 
especially for those of us that simply can't keep up with MacOSX-Talk)