RE: [cobalt-users] .med tld - which method is best?

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:07 AM 2/26/2003, you wrote:

> > > > Sounds like a bit of a scam.
> > > >
> > > > <quote from www.new.net website>
>
> EXACTLY what I said after I learned more about this *supposed tld*.
>
> I understand that your ISP has to be new.net enabled OR you need the 
> browser plugin to enable your own system.
>
> For the cost of the domain name I don't mind having it, but a scam??? 
> YES!!!!!!!
>
> Back to my question - so only my ISP where I host my RAQ has to make the 
> bind changes, not me on my RAQ which only runs dns for its own sites???


Any ISP that wants a customer to see your site has to do it.  Your ISP 
would only effect you and the customers using your ISP.  It has nothing to 
do with serving it.  The Raq is doing that, just no one can find it on 
their own.

Unless a normal web user ads the browser plugin or their ISP ads the stuff 
to their systems, that customer can't find the site.  Thus anyone using 
Prodigy (SBC bought them and now sells Yahoo), United Online (netzero and 
juno), Earthlink, a couple of Latin American provides, and a  few no name 
provides can see the site and no one else.  Regardless if we like it, AOL 
is still the biggest, and none of their customers can see it, and most 
other provides won't be allowing their customers to see it.  Other big 
names, AT&T Worldnet, Verizon, SBC/Yahoo, and others are not jumping on 
board here and none of their customers can see it.

You don't have to do anything to serve it other than what you have 
done.  If you add it to you hosts file on your windows computer, you could 
see it and tell if you have it see correctly on your server.  The Raq 
doesn't really care as long as you set it up just like any other domain.



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