Originally posted by domainAddict
Anyway, why would anyone try to speculate about bogus domains, not approved by icann?
In the same sense .com is a bogus domain.
Any tld if accepted by any of the root servers is official and has
nothing to do with ICANN or its approval.
ICANN is a bogus organization set up for control and money
purposes, unfortunately too seriously accepted by entities
even outside of USA.
The most recent blamage was ICANN's "approval" of .eu domain,
which is another proof of human, especially European idiocy.
There are many other "official" tlds in the internet space like:
.bio, .cal., .cars, .etc, .food, .sat, .cam, etc, etc, which DO NOT
require any plug-in software in order to be seen.
Its all about DNS resolving or assigning right numerical address to
a human understandable name.
ICANN controled space is limited to the A- root server, hierarchicaly highest of 13 root servers, which resolve names like .com, .net, .org and some others and crowd
(nothing attract crowd like crowd) just goes with the mainstream
assigning DNS resolution up to the A-root.
It is nothing more than a database which says which name correspond to which numerical address.
http://www.adns.net/about_alternative_domains.html
It is kind of conspiracy where even search engines participate.
There is one of that kind :
http://www.search.etc which of
course most users can't see right now. Five minutes after reading
this you will be able to use it if you want to.
Don't expect too much from this SE, it is still a "baby", this is just for the demonstration purpose.
You can also go to
http://bbc.news or any other official extension like:
http://www.biz.biz/bizresources.html
(Ironically I made mistake with .school which is another story.
In order to see the rest of Internet you only have to set your
TCP/IP DNS resolution to either PacificRoot or ORSC root,
which resolve ALL names, including A-root (.coms, etc).
That's all!
Example of DNS numbers:
208.179.42.162
204.172.129.2
12.28.140.20
or go to this address for more info:
http://www.pacificroot.com/updatedns.shtml
Now you can open your monitor's horizons and find out the senselessness of regulating tlds.
I know this is anti-this-forum, but for the sake of curiosity and truth, we should all think about it.
After all we can benefit from this too, as it is possible to create our
own TLDs!