At 01:39 PM 6/26/96 -0400, you wrote:

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An entity claiming to be William Knowles wrote: : : With all the talk about InterNIC zapping domains, there should be : some talk about other registries, Alternic.net : http://www.alternic.net : is offering an alpha test for registering new TLD's and the prices : are considerably less expensive than the Internic. :

ALTERNIC.NIC is a couple of kids with a few Linux boxes. It's rather amusing, but they did go through a lot of trouble to make it look good. Sure, the new TLD's work if you use their name server.

I thought about actually registering NSA.TEL and MCI.ATT with them for shits and giggles. I love the TLD's they have ... BSA, XXX, CAT, DOG ... it was a good laugh, but it's way past April 1st.

Well, Karl's IETF draft is certainly serious. A Karl is a bit more than a kid with a linux box having started one of the largest ISPs in Chicago and being a component in the anti CIX fiasco. I still fail to see why decentralizing control of namespace is a bad idea.