YES YES YES! Thank you for understanding what I'm talking about. Nuno Garcia wrote: > Excelent point, fully agree. From a technological point of view, the > differences for managing ibm.com <http://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] > <mailto:[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 > <http://ibm.com>. This would allow IBM to control everything under > .ibm > >