ICANN is not the controlling body for the ".". That role belongs to the US Dept. of Commerce. It chooses to take ICANN's advice, but has no duty to do so. Lengthy legal details at: http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann-main.htm or http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Bruce Campbell wrote: [...] > So, your statement regarding the creation of '.biz' and others being > impossible is incorrect, as ICANN, for better or for worse, appears to be > the current Registrar for the Top Level Domain ('.') for the time being, Where does it say that? It's DoC! > and can (under RFC920) investigate and by extension implement, new top > level domains. > -- Please visit http://www.icannwatch.org A. Michael Froomkin | Professor of Law | froomkin@law.tm U. Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA +1 (305) 284-4285 | +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) | http://www.law.tm -->It's very hot here.<--