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.

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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 of the TLD.

What I'm suggesting is that IBM controls everything under ibm.com. This would allow IBM to control everything under .ibm