[cobalt-users] last msg on .med tld

[jale@xxxxxxxxxx]

Just to finish up this thread on the .med tld - this is from the owner of 
our ISP:

written to ISP

> > Also - what are your thoughts on the new pseudo tld's, ie: .med - the 
> > new.net stuff. I'm not thrilled at their setup, but I do own xxx.med and 
> > have to decide how much work it is worth to own. I think there is a lot 
> > of ISP issues involved with it. Have you thought about these? I agree 
> > with icann that it is like cyber-squatting on tld's.

response from ISP

> Don't waste your time or money. They are a hack and most people can't get 
> to them anyway. We won't support them because the idea BREAKS the idea of 
> DNS which is supposed to be a distributed hierarchy. Email to new.net 
> domains will never work either since nobody is going to hack their mail 
> servers. It is easier to get people to install a browser plugin than to 
> get mail admins to hack their servers to support something non-standard 
> with lots of resistance.

Jale