Another Alternate Root?
As if we would not remember the discussion’s about new.net‘s alternate Root TLDs, a Dutch company thinks that there is a bandwagon to jump on:
Firm wants to rid Net of suffixes (Yahoo! News) [ed. Thanks to AT]
The company is called UnfiedRoot and asks ISPs and endusers to change their resolver’s settings in order to query their root servers in order to get access to ‘the whole Internet’.
In order to find out if they are planning on logging NXDOMAIN responses (for non existing-domains), I just sent them the following question:
Will Unified Root’s Nameservers be storing any queries for currently non-existing domains? If so, what will be done with that data?
This data could be used in a similar fashion as done by others before to register typo and generic domains.
(Hmmm, if you are editing a blog, do you send your questions ot the company itself, or to their PR agency?)
[...] In Domain Editorial (BETA) » Another Alternate Root? I asked: Will Unified Roots Nameservers be storing any queries for currently non-existing domains? If so, what will be done with that data? [...]
Playing -after- the dot should be considered a risky deal in a cyberworld where ICANN’s relative domain name stability and predictability are the norm.
It’s also worth noting the UnifiedRoot domain isn’t working anymore… or is it just me?