----- Original Message ----- From: "Einar Stefferud" <Steflist@thor.nma.com> > > I am not a .biz domain holder, and have no interest in being one. Stef, With all due respect, you may be missing the simple fact that the sum total of serious SLD.BIZ owners will determine the fate of .BIZ. Since you are not part of that "tribe" or population, it may be hard to recognize that the "roots" do not matter. If you were, you would recognize that you would have two (or more) private nameservers supporting queries for your SLD.BIZ name. A serious .BIZ owner would make sure that all paths lead to their nameservers when queries are made for SLD.BIZ. Once a query comes to their servers, they do not care how it got there. Many ISPs point directly at the TLD Clusters, and do not need or use any "root". Roots provide hints to help bootstrap people, once a TLD Cluster is located, it knows about itself and one can track changes to it by asking it, not an out-of-date "root". An ISP can also fail-over to the other .BIZ Cluster, if the first Cluster they are tracking goes away. Yes, yes, I know, big companies like Enron and Worldcom do not ever fail. Just ignore that and keep your head in the sand. I doubt that serious .BIZ owners will want to risk a single-point-of-corporate failure. That is likely why there are two Proof-of-Concept .BIZ Registries. Register in BOTH, and your "toy" Internet works. There is then no "collision" for your SLD.BIZ name, which you choose not to own. Jim Fleming 2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt