----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Jeftovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > use > > > of the pervasive and common word God in the context of the .God namespace > > is > > > not a valid one. > > > > Why not. ICANN has no legitimacy to "grant" rights into a TLD. > > Only the ISPs decide if a TLD is a valid one or not. If they decide to > > resolve .God Domains, then it is a valid TLD. > > If Joe would have the money he could pay e.g. EarthLink to resolve his .God > > domain names. I don't know if Joe has > > such sums...New.net has it. > > > > One of the things I always try to point out to people is that the "visible > namespace" is governed by one thing: consensus. Everyone could decide > tomorrow to start resolving or using different roots and it wouldn't > matter what ICANN or anyone else thought about it. Things might get > a little chaotic though. Let the end user decide. Btw. there is a plu-in offered by nameslinger and ThePacificRoot which lets you surf all roots. You decide which root you want to surf with only one click. > The economics are stacked against entities like New.net if they are > paying earthlink to resolve them, but I've always said a couple turns > of events could break things wide open. Yes, if you do it wrong. If you pay money to a ppc search engine, are the economics against you? You could make profits from the money you've invested. > Lets say Redhat, Debian, Slackware linux-es and Free/Net/OpenBSD decided > tomorrow to bundle the ORSC root in their distributions instead of the > legacy IANA based one. > > That, would make a difference. > > Not saying if its a good thing or a bad thing or how (un)likely it is. Or New.net partners with Microsoft, like RealNames did it. > But bringing it back to the practical side if Tucows started offering > these alternative spaces, nobody is holding a gun to anybody's head > to sell and support them. We didn't touch IDS, but we'll do DNS for > any damn domain name you want, visible or not. (We do have a handfull > of New.net users using us for DNS, we even had a .USA once) I can support this.
