[geeks] OT: (Off topic) Computer/Internet-related content

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 04:48:16PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:

> "Because they aren't official top-level domains, the top-level domains set up 
> by New.net require Internet users to install a small software application that 
> will allow a user's computer to find the domains on the Internet.

Specifically, it's an IE add-on, so it won't even work for other Winblows
mail clients.

>                                                                   New.net also 
> has agreements with several large national Internet service providers that 
> automatically are set up to recognize the company's top-level domains. "
> 
> E.g., a hack.  bogus.  If I cant hit a domain from the root nameservers,
> in my view, it doesent exist.

I believe that foo.bogusdomain also resolves as foo.bogusdomain.new.net.
Which is, in fact, all that the IE add-on does.

I wonder if new.net will tell their customers just how shafted they will
be when they tell someone their email address @foo.bogusdomain?

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