[ga-roots] Alternate Roots Issues Paper for Discussion

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

Re-posted from Yahoo Groups.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@CYBERNOTHING.ORG>
To: Ravi Lahoti <ravi@nebulant.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:45:26 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Ravi Lahoti wrote:

> My question is if NEW.NET is manipulating by creating these sub-domains,
> 
> what if NEW.NET's DNS goes down, how is that going to affect all the
> sub-registered domains?

Grant is mistaken on the technical facts, and claims that New.net is
misrepresenting anything is specious.

When a user registers a domain name within New.net they actually receive
two registrations; one under their chosen TLD (ex. example.tech) and one
under new.net (ex. example.tech.new.net). This is to allow individuals
without native access to the New.net namespace a method of access.  

Further, New.net is at all times clear about what is offered. Full
disclosure is made on nearly every page of the website, as well as at the
time of purchase. 

Finally, to answer your question, if DNS was to stop working for new.net,
individuals would be unable to peform lookups on any names in the new.net
namespace. However, this is exactly the same thing that would happen to
individuals under .com if NSI's DNS servers were to stop working.



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