ICANN Recommends ISOC Run .org TLD

Amazing Quantum Man writes "According to ZDNet, ICANN has issued a report recommending that ISOC run the .org TLD. It looks like ISOC would run .org in conjunction with Afilias." mesozoic points out that ISOC is a non-profit organization composed of many for-profit heavyweights, writing "I'm not surprised; are you?" This preliminary report may be disappointing to those who hoped that Paul Vixie and Carl Malamud would be successful in their bid to head up .org.

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British Telecom and WorldCom

[T-Kir]

Slightly offtopic I know, but BT and Woldcom are in the "Sustaining-Gold Members" section, I wonder how long that sustaining will last.. considering the nice sized debt that BT have (as with most communications companies at the moment), and the missing billions that WorldCom have (or should have had).

nix TLDs

[surfacearea]

Perhaps for IPv6 we should just get rid of TLDs altogether. And why not?

Vixie would definitely use BIND

[Noodleroni]

I don't know whether ISOC would use the Buggy Internet Name Daemon or not, but I know Paul Vixie would definitely use it. Here is Dan Berstein's feelings about BIND: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/blurb/unbind.html . I know from personal experience that BIND is big, slow, and the config files are a nightmare, whereas Dan's djbdns is wonderful. I hope whoever get's .org will use djbdns.

Noodle