So some things have to remain private. But a crucial economic feature like the URL redirection in Netscape 4.5 is something that's very hard to support if it isn't openly documented and subject to replacement. I think it works against Netscape, longterm, if they try to exclusively own this feature. Disclaimer Others have pointed out that I initially supported this feature in May in a piece called Making Money from DNS . Here's a link.
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