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see OpenNIC...this is exactly what they do. Add a new server into resolv.conf, and you can resolve the tld's that they've created.

Or use superroot.org's root servers. DJBDNS users can simply put

199.166.24.1
195.117.6.10
199.166.24.3
199.166.31.250
199.166.31.3
199.5.157.128
204.57.55.100
204.80.125.130
205.189.73.10
205.189.73.102
207.126.103.16
216.13.76.2
216.196.48.66

into their {mumble}/dnscache/root/servers/@ file. BIND users use these instructions instead.

The hack gives your access to all the usual TLDs AND SuperRoot's plethora of TLDs without sweat.

// Klaus
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see OpenNIC...this is exactly what they do. Add a new server into resolv.conf, and you can resolve the tld's that they've created.

Or use superroot.org's root servers. DJBDNS users can simply put

199.166.24.1
195.117.6.10
199.166.24.3
199.166.31.250
199.166.31.3
199.5.157.128
204.57.55.100
204.80.125.130
205.189.73.10
205.189.73.102
207.126.103.16
216.13.76.2
216.196.48.66

into their {mumble}/dnscache/root/servers/@ file. BIND users use these instructions instead.

The hack gives your access to all the usual TLDs AND SuperRoot's plethora of TLDs without sweat.

// Klaus
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The ORSC "How To" page shows how to resolve the .BIZ domain (you do know how to use dig, right?):
http://support.open-rsc.org/How_To/

Or you can use SetDNS:
http://www.open-rsc.org/setdns/

The root zone file containing .BIZ (and also containing an ICANN board member's TLD) can be found here:
http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone/db.root or
http://www.superroot.org/root.db

The following "spoofed" addresses also work:
http://www.icann.org&search=gtld&type=all@12017761 667/root.db
http://www.internic.net&search=gtld&type=all@12017 761667/root.db

FYI, the ORSC web site was written in 1997 to meet the US Gov's submission process criteria for the "new corp" (which is now known as ICANN). You are correct, the ORSC site does need to be updated. Instead of a pretty web site there is over six years of consensus and running code in the ORSC root zone. This is preferable to vaporware and marketing drivel driving banner ad counters.

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Clowns Rule!

A fully distributed, rootless name service would be something from the current DNS protocols and DNS implementations.

However, if one considers today's DNS to be a set of TLDs (Top Level Domains) that are found by consulting a "root" then it is indeed possible to create root systems other than the one most, but not all. of us use. Personally, I use one of these other root systems - and I have been doing for several years and have had zero problems. Take a look at http://www.superroot.org/ and http://www.opennic.unrated.net/public_servers.html

A while back I wrote a note on competitive root systems: http://www.cavebear.com/cavebear/growl/issue_2.htm #multiple_roots The IAB of the IETF takes a dim view of competive roots, but I don't accept the logic of their decison. (The IAB's note is in RFC2826.)

This is YOUR internet. You can cast your vote today by how you configure your DNS settings.

Thousands of new domain names in a variety of new top level domains resolve here. The recently reported .GOD domain names resolve, as well as all the old .WEB names. Users of this alternate root include Gordon Cook (Cook Report on the Internet).

For more information, check out:

http://support.open-rsc.org/How_To/
http://www.superroot.org/

This is YOUR internet. You can cast your vote today by how you configure your DNS settings.

Thousands of new domain names in a variety of new top level domains resolve here. The recently reported .GOD domain names resolve, as well as all the old .WEB names. Users of this alternate root include Gordon Cook (Cook Report on the Internet).

For more information, check out:

http://support.open-rsc.org/How_To/
http://www.superroot.org/

There are a number of prospective new TLD services, maybe it was The SuperRoot Consortium?