From: "Michael O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
They can't can they ?
You still need to contact the root-servers to find out "who's responsible
for .cool" and if the root-servers refuse to tell you, you'll never know
I exercised some software from my wife's Windows machine over the weekend
that added some new TLD's, but I guess the driver just intercepts those DNS
requests and redirects them if anyone was stupid enough to want to look
them up.
So to support these new TLD's, you need a list of root-servers to contact
to find out who has the domain...
Or just force all ISPs in the nation to forward to treat the governments DNS
servers as root. The root DNS server is a very vague concept- if your ISP
pointed to a non-official root, you wouldn't know until you couldn't reach a
site they didn't have registered, or couldn't reach one you can at home from
another computer.
Gabe
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