In <01BC1CE4.1C6C1DA0@webster.unety.net>, Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net> wrote:
The U.S. Government via their NSF/InterNIC has been actively blocking the development of competing TLD registries by preventing companies from having entries in the Root Name Servers they operate.
Indeed, the US Government has been actively conspiring with Paul Vixie, the IAHC, the U.N., the World Bank, and the Freemasons to quash the AlterNuts, the ROOT{64,128}, and everyone else you'd care to include in that group. Rumor has it a fleet of black helicopters is enroute to Toronto to silence Eugene Kashpuref (and to drop Bob Allisat in the nearest river). For verification of all of this, see the seekrit encrypted instructions on the back of the nearest Federal highway sign. (Fnord.) -- Michael Handler <handler@sub-rosa.com> Washington, D.C.