I am sure Microsoft would love to have this implemented. For them to drop, say, $5b and buy up all remaining available IP address space is no big deal. ...

Howdy Hank, Back when I was contributing to "Working Group C" (ICANN New gTLDs), through the clutter of trademark zealots (no new tlds ever) and anarchists (zillions now) the insight swept over me one like-verisign-to-compeat-verisign evening. Everyone wanting "in" was an amature, or one of the six new registrars, and a cut above amature, and no one had deep pockets, except courtesy of the dot gone bubble. So who could sweep this market, and bundle a domain name into their product... It hasn't happened. My crystal ball has a crack. Eric