On Sunday, June 21, 1998 9:51 AM, Robert Elz[SMTP:kre§munnari.OZ.AU] wrote: § | People should keep in mind that some § | of the 2-letter TLDs were created as a way around the $50 NSI fee. § §This is just as much gibberish as the previous statement. The country §domains were *all* created in the mid 80's. NB: created, not delegated. §They were all created at the same time, except the few extra that have been §added by the ISO people since as part of revisions of 3166. § §Back then, no-one was even considering charging for domain names. § §A (small minority) of the more exotic country domains may have been delegated §as a response to charging, and NSI's policies, (though I wouldn't say as a §way around the fee). § Sorry...I should have said "delegated"...creation is hard to pin down... It is interesting to note that Robert Elz is endorsing the fact that TLDs can be "created" BEFORE they are entered into the legacy Root Servers. Here are 2,048 TLDs that various people and companies have "created"... they are awaiting delegation... http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com - 0:196 .MALL 1998 - The Year of the C+§Received on Mon Jun 22 1998 - 03:02:11 UTC
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