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In article <50qmus$cj1@news.interlog.com>,
Andrew Silliker <silliker@gold.interlog.com> wrote:
>Brian Tao (taob@zot.io.org) wrote:
>: them.  Throwing out the creation and administration of new TLD's to
>: the masses is not the way to do it.  I'll wait until I hear a formal
>: announcement from the InterNIC or IANA before I touch my named.root.
>
>I'm not normally very religious, but.. Amen.

Get up of your knees, Andy. ;-)


Ok, you're probably never going to hear an announcement out of the InterNIC;
IANA has posted a new draft for new TLD's.

The AlterNIC new TLD's are *experimantal* and in that sense, IANA
approved as such. Before the new year, several new registries
are going to pop up and there is a non zero chance that the
experimantel names registered to date will be grandfathered
and be viable names at that time.

At any rate, mcs.net ans alternic web pages go out of their
way to be ery explicit about the experimental nature of the
new tld's.

Alternic has it's own set of root servers. The "old guard"
is not real happy about this, but thus far they have
proven to be more reliable than the other root servers.

I've done the alternic EDNS hack, it works fine. Zero problems in 
3 months.

I wouldnt council anybody to get *only* a new tld name (such as
cyber.cafe), but with the name cybercafe.com* going for $30K US
it might be a viable alternative as more and more site do the EDNS
shuffle, when used in addition to names from the the current tld's.

Considering how fast "good" domain names go, and what some of them
are worth today, it may be prudent to grab any name you may want
in the future. There certainly is no guarentee the names will
be grandfathered, but they may well be. 

Disclaimer: I have no relationship to the alternic or mcs.net
other than as a user. Their stuff works.






* see http://www.bestdomains.com
-- 
Richard Sexton
root@cabal.org