----- Original Message ----- From: "Einar Stefferud" <Stef@thor.nma.com> > I fully realize the your way of doing it can work in due course, but > I still do not want any .biz domains, just because I have enough (for > myself) already;-)... > > I am not saying anything bad about your arrangements and I wish you > al he success in the world with it, because it looks like a solution > to the lack of cooperation elsewhere in the universe;-)... > Stef, It is not *my* arrangement. It is the arrangement of the .BIZ community. They have collectively, [one SLD.BIZ name at a time], decided to create the situation they have. Keep in mind they are just testing. They are just doing Proof-of-Concept experiments. They can not harm anyone, they are isolated on the "toy", 32-bit, IPv4 TOS=0 network. Assuming there are eventually some serious SLD.BIZ owners, they can then be identified more easily. They can collectively work to upgrade their services from the trivial 32-bit DNS variety, to the 128-bit DNS services. It may take a long time before that happens, because, you may have noticed, there are not many .BIZ web-sites out there. Look at the so-called .BIZ Registrars, they do not even use .BIZ names. http://www.thepricedomain.com/index.php?domainlist=biz As for other arrangements, freedom-loving people are routing around the damage... http://www.New.Net http://www.NewRoot.com http://www.Name-Space.com http://www.MOX1.com To move beyond the IPv4 TOS=0 Internet, is now very easy. The RIRs may not like it....they want to sell/lease people blocks of addresses... http://www.cafax.se/dnsop/maillist/2002-07/msg00020.html "Nothing in ip6.arpa unless managed by the RIRs." You might want to check to see who owns IN-ADDR.BIZ and whether it is properly registered in both of the .BIZ Registries.... Jim Fleming 2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt