Excelent point, fully agree. From a technological point of view, the
differences for managing ibm.com and for managing .ibm should be close to
zero.

Yet, if you want to resell... that's a totally new scenario...

BR

Nuno Garcia

2010/3/18 Marc Perkel <[log in to unmask]>

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> Avri Doria wrote:
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> On 18 Mar 2010, at 16:29, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>  So - if the root servers referred .reality to my servers then it would be fully operational.
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>  and if you met all of the other conditions in the DAG and paid your 185 KUSD then it might, until then, it is a plaything.
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> remember, we are talking about reality here and not your religious belief in a world without IANA.
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> My point however is that as a private TLD the other conditions are not
> necessary. Those conditrion only are necessary if you are selling subdomains
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> What I'm suggesting is that IBM controls everything under ibm.com. This
> would allow IBM to control everything under .ibm
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