Hello Robert,
Saturday, May 12, 2001, 6:29:07 PM, Robert L Mathews wrote:
> There are approximately 400 million Internet users
> [http://www.c-i-a.com/200103iu.htm]. According to new.net's own
> statistics, only 21 million of them can resolve new.net domains.
And considering how long they have been in business, and the fact that
all of the other NUMEROUS alternative root server systems and TLD
operators combined have not been able to achieve even 10% of that kind
visibility, I'd say that's a major accomplishment.
That's over 5% of the worldwide internet population, and in fact the
percentage of US internet users only is higher.
And the DNS system that New.net is using to make these domains
resolvable is definitely one of the most advanced setups available.
I think also that people overestimate the costs of doing something
like this. New.net's biggest expenditure I'd bet is marketing (and
marketing related).
I've written TLD Registry software from the bottom up and deployed TLD
dns systems. If New.net ever had a problem making ends meet, they
could certainly trim things down a few notches and the operational
expense of maintaining what is in essence a fully automated system
could be kept quite small.
Anyone remember ml.org?
Over 250,000 register hosts, entirely free to end users, managed on
two colocated servers. If it wasn't for internal politics......
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Best regards,
William X Walsh
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