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.
That's OK for all Canadians to get access to .cool, but the rest of the
world won't get to it unless they all know about it
So yes, any old ISP (or nation) can start arbitrarily giving away
domains of their own choosing, but it's not effective unless you have an
audience that accesses them. You can capture the audience if your nation
forces it's ISP's to ask the national root-servers before asking the
international ones, but then your audience is only as wide as your shores.
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