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;-)... Best...\Stef At 11:10 PM -0500 8/6/02, Jim Fleming wrote: >----- 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out-of-date "root".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
