Should someone give up 30% of their business because Paul Vixie tells them to?

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Dinaburg said he became interested in this topic last year at Black Hat when a friend, Robert Edmonds, and Paul Vixie presented on a study of changes observed within the domain name system (DNS).

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As a result, the CyberCreek domain has a permanent place on the RBL. Brunner is fighting back through Combat.org, a site dedicated to ranting about Paul Vixie and the RBL. "This is a war, a nasty war, " says Brunner.

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"The only way to get access to their part of the Net is to pay them a tithe, and to that extent it's a classic monopoly, " says Paul Vixie, head of Internet services for Metromedia Fiber Network, which is building its own network.

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