[35302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Tue Mar 6 16:56:33 2001
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:36:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Joe Provo <joe.provo@rcn.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Joe Provo wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:13:36AM -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > [ this came from http://www.new.net/about_us_press.tp and appears not to be
> > > a joke. its operational impact will not be felt today, but if it's even
> > > moderately popular before it dies, operational impact WILL be felt. i'm
> > > quite surprised by some of the folks they list as their partners. --vix ]
> >
> > Too bad ICANN has been such a complete and utter failure that an
> > organization felt it necessary to start such a business, huh?
>
> Too bad people can believe what they read in press releases rather than
> reality.
>
> I wonder if anyone can register a name with them, and then sue them for
> not actually adding any new TLDs?
They are adding new TLDs via their own root servers.
http://www.new.net/help_isp_info.tp
Everyone that has a computer has a choice where to point resolution to.
