> In fact i do
> have the email address of (almost every) dns administrator on the planet -
> but that's a last resort. The message is already getting out via standard
> channels and we owe much of that in fact to ICANN.
I do hope you have an ISP/upstream that is very sympathetic towards bulk
mail. If you decide to email them all, you could quite easily end up
shutting yourselves down before you get anywhere.
> The problem with duplication is a reality. And it will also be a driving
> force towards cooperation. People dont like confusion, but they like
> being controlled and told what to do even less.
But people are very used to slow, bloated, lumbering beasts like the
governement, and ISO. ICANN is no different really.
> And the duplication issue is really a non issue. Anytime someo joins the
> Open Root Server Consortium and wants to run a tld the first thing that
> happens is they are reffered to me (I really hate that and should maybe
> send them instruction for the page). Anyway the first question I get
> asked is if such and such a string is in use anywhere and what string can
> they build their registry on. And I always send them to the same place.
And if you create .GOD, and if ICANN creates .GOD a few months down the
road? Then you have a conflict. Honestly, do you expect them to
notice/care about the TLDs that you have created, given that they basically
are the authority that almost everybody listens to.
Also consider how a business will feel about A) Having their site accessible
by 1% (I just made that up, but I suspect it's less) of the internet right
now, and risking that ICANN will make up a duplicate TLD later on and that
their competition may grab that domain up.
Nice try for effort, but I honestly don't see this going anywhere. I can't
even find a single ISP that uses your root servers. I've looked at all the
local ones I can think of, I grep'd my mail server's logs and checked most
of their name servers, I pulled web logs from my employer's web server, a
little over 60,000 hits daily, and checked a fair number of those servers.
I still can't find anywhere that WWW.DOT.GOD. is visible.
I'll watch and wait though, and see what happens.
