I am no prophet, but obviously there are discussions going on
between new.net
and ICANN.70 Mio people have access to new.net names and possibly the applet is
integrated in netscape 6.1, may be explorer 6 beta or win xp or
win xp plus
- not sure. Anthony has been testing and now he has the
applet on his otherwise
virgin hard drive...
They are on their way becoming a standard, at least after
the Afilias
dot info debacle:
The dot info registry is (according to Afilias)
NOT yet COMPLETE.
Not only did they crash, but they crashed on a system that isn't
even
complete!
ICANNs position and authority is in terrible danger and guess
what: New.net is gaining popularity out of that ICANN mess.
Details on that mess:
Mr.
A. registered a .info name today. The registrar defaulted to their
name servers
and sent him a password so that he could change it to
his.
The page says: "Sorry,
the domain you have entered is a new extension
and the modification interface
for this extension is still in
development."
A phone call yeilded the explanation,
"Sorry, but Afilias doesn't yet
have the ability for us to send nameserver updates.
They say it'll be
another MONTH or so until they're done with that part of their
registry."
This is serious. In case it's not obvious, here's what this means:
AFILIAS'S
REGISTRY ISN'T COMPLETE. Not only did they
crash, but they crashed on a system
that isn't even complete!