Re: [ga] Ask Vint Cerf: The Road Ahead for Top-Level Domains

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:51 p.m. 19/01/2006, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Joop Teernstra wrote:
>
> > So why not inject .ewe into the alt root ...
>
> .ewe is in most of the competitive root zones; it has been for a long 
> time.  However, I suspect the NS records are not always right.


Can the 17 million new.net users see .ewe domains?

Do you know if Google indexes the competing roots?
(perhaps more a question for Vint)


> Right now the name servers are (there will be more, with better geographic 
> distribution once I get things ironed out):
>         puck.iwl.com.
>         ariel.iwl.com.
>         lear.cavebear.com.
>
> As for the .ewe registry, in my not very copious spare time I've been 
> working on the code, which will be published under a non-viral open source 
> license.  (The code is in Python and uses MySQL.) It's changed a bit from 
> the original "digital certificate" model - now the act of registration 
> requires that the acquirer deposit a public key.  Possession of the 
> private key then becomes the mark of ownership.

What would to plan to do about the sleaze-factor associated with a 
successful anonymous registry? As always, the better the anonymity, the 
deeper the sleaze-sinkhole.
cf. the Joe Baptista statement to the Zeeland police and the hasty pullout 
of Bradley Thornton from the  Xennt-mire.
Even a government operative has to dissociate himself sometimes, when it 
gets too unsavoury.



> > $30 for a 30-year transferable certificate?
>
> Right now it looks as if registration itself will be free, but activing 
> the name (if you don't activate within 5 days of registration, the name 
> becomes available again), declaring/changing name servers, 
> hiding/revealing the name, and other administrative services will require 
> that someone deposit tokens (via digitally signed credit memo) that 
> represent the fact that by some undefined mechanism some money has changed 
> hands.
>
> > 50 000  registrants in the first year?
>
> My wife already has "beautiful.ewe".

With an associated web site?


> I'm also thinking of doing .dog, the dyslexic TLD.

:-) It may need more thinking still.



-joop-