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]> > > > Avri Doria wrote: > > On 18 Mar 2010, at 16:29, Marc Perkel wrote: > > > > So - if the root servers referred .reality to my servers then it would be fully operational. > > > 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. > > remember, we are talking about reality here and not your religious belief in a world without IANA. > > a. > > > > 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 > of the TLD. > > What I'm suggesting is that IBM controls everything under ibm.com. This > would allow IBM to control everything under .ibm > >