North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
> 2. Are there differences between how New.net domain names and > .COM/.NET/.ORG domain names work? There are some differences, but in many > ways the domain names work the same. > Nope. You query a resolver, and it returns the best answer that it knows. Resolvers only do what you tell them to do. > One difference is that in order for people to see New.net domain names > they must be either accessing the Internet through one of our many ISP > partners or they must have downloaded and installed our Web browser > plug-in. > In order to use the New.net names, you just need to query a resolver that knows about them. The '.com/.net/.org' block has a distinct advantage, since most resolvers find out about their servers by default. -- Alex Kamantauskas [email protected]
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