>_From: Robert Elz
>   | The implementation of the
>   | policies so far, as other have commented before this, has meant that even
>   | if you know the name (exactly) you won't necessarily find the
>   | other information needed to make contact since there are many public and
>   | private companies with trading names and use either one or the other.
> 
> No, that isn't the policies, that is the nature of the DNS.   It simply
> is not designed to allow that kind of translation, never was, and never
> will be.  To use the DNS you must know the domain name some other way.
> Its purpose is purely and simply to translate known domain names into
> other information (mail delivery points, IP addresses, etc).   Anything
> more than that is purely taking wild stabs (occasionally not so wild)
> and then looking to see if you happened to hit the right place by going
> there and seeing it it looks to be where you wanted to get, and if not,
> trying again.   That's a pretty stupid way to operate really, when you
> think about it.

yes it is. and its not helped but forcing people to take names
they are not happy with or cant even begin to be guessed at by
people searching for them. and your explanations so far in no way justify
the current rules.

Vic