PV> Paul Vixie is an existing provider of competitive services for PV> registry operations, including providing TLD domain name hosting PV> services for ccTLDs and gTLDs, and a competitor of VeriSign for PV> new registry operations. [...]
I'm missing something. By what stretch of whose imagination does root nameserver operations compete with a registrar?
i think they mean ns-ext.isc.org (or its old name, ns-ext.vix.com), which offers "TLD hosting" without fee to about 60 domains: % awk '/^zone/ { print $2 }' slave_tld.zones | sed 's/"//g' | fmt ac ae ao bg br com.br ca cd cl cz cv gov.fj fr hn hr io il ac.il co.il gov.il k12.il muni.il net.il org.il in co.in ernet.in org.in ac.in res.in gov.in mil.in net.in firm.in gen.in ind.in is museum md na com.na nl np com.np edu.np org.np mil.np net.np gov.np nr biz.nr com.nr edu.nr gov.nr info.nr net.nr org.nr pt ro sh tm za si sk co.zw aq pn ug if it's not that, then perhaps they're just smoking crack. (note for TLD folks... we're trying to collect the whole set, we're missing the last 200 or so, give us a call, tsig preferred.) -- Paul Vixie