[ga-full] Re: [IFWP] [IPN] ICANN asked to create .union, .sucks and other new TLDs (fwd)

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

!Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Michael Sondow wrote:
> 
> > A more honest approach would be for CPT and Essential Org to simply
> > create those domain names, serve them from the alternate root
> > servers like vrx.net and/or NameSpace, and announce to the public
> > that they were available. Since when do the taxpayers and union
> > members ask the stooges of big business like Dyson & Co. for
> > permission?
> 
> I agree - to ask ICANN is to assume they have control - which they
> don't.  I fully support what Michael has said here.  Start up your
> registry - get a listing in one or all of the new root server
> confederations, and give icann an invitation to list you.
> 
> If they don't - just tell your users to switch roots - or to ask their dns
> admins to pickup a new root cache for one of the root server operators.

Precisely.

> The europeans are already testing thier own root server system if icann
> fails to give them .eu.

I hope they do. Enough of this TLD monopoly!


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