You've obviously not spent much time at their web-site. see http://www.new.net/help_isp_info.tp Especially, download their hints file. It looks like a root-zone to me.... BTW, I don't run theirs because it has some colliders with ORSC root zone. But, they are definitely TLDs. That the ALSO support those zones at the 3LD is a compatibility move, not a cheat.

-----Original Message----- From: Shawn McMahon [mailto:smcmahon@eiv.com] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 6:22 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Stability of the Internet?

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:16:12PM -0700, Tim Langdell, PhD wrote:

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new roots? There are a host (sorry for pun) of ways of

introducing new TLDs

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without adding new roots. For instance the New.Net approach and the addition

The New.Net approach doesn't add new TLDs. It is an application solution, piggybacked on existing TLDs.

It essentially consists of replacing DNS with something else, that unfortunately still requires DNS to function. It is, in a word, parasitic.