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> > We have virtual domains here and they have logical reason, but not
> > someone using reseved (assigned) address is not ethical.
> 
> Ethics have nothing to do with it.
> 

Of course, anyone running a DNS which is authortitative for a particular
domain can have address records pointing to wherever they want.  However,
I think that the internet depends to some extent on people running DNS
servers to act in a responsible manner.  I think ethics does have
something to do with it.

If Sanford Wallace decided to have www.cyberpromo.com point to a machine I
own, I *would* be concerned.  And it wouldn't be ethical.

Charles Mott