Tim Berners-Lee

Date: December 19, 1996

Status: personal view. Editing status: Italic text is rough. Reques complete edit and possibly massaging, but content is basically there. Words such as "axiom" and "theorem" are used with gay abandon and the reverse of rigour here..

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Universal Resource Identifiers -- Axioms of Web Architecture


HTTP GET hall of flame

The web is an information space. When you explore it, you don't end up buying stuff, agreeing to anything, or - in this case losing your domain name!

From: <csupport@registerapi.com>
Date: Fri Apr 11, 2003  19:31:28 US/Eastern
To: timbl@w3.org
Subject: Confirm Domain Transfer

A Transfer Request was submitted for the following domains.
Click on the following link to confirm the domain transfer request for these domains.

https://secure.registerapi.com/order/trx/confirm.php?id=cesO[...]cbI

Your Transfer Request Code IS: ces[...]cbI
https://secure.registerapi.com/order/trx/confirm.php

Domains:

WWW.ORG


If you did not request the transfer of these domains then DO NOT click on the above links.
By not clicking you are preventing a domain registrar transfer from taking place.

Thank you, The Automated Domain Transfer System

And thank you, registerapi.com, for an example of how not to do it. Of course, I didn't click on the link to find out what would happen. Maybe they do take you to a form which has a submit button for the action of agreeing to losing the domain name.

(Oh, and by the way, www.or is not for sale and never will be!)

See also


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