In message <52E96FF9.4050200@gmail.com>, at 22:17:45 on Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Pier Carlo Chiodi <pc.chiodi@gmail.com> writes
I am extremely concerned about giving even the slightest [mistaken] impression that anyone's NS are located at IANA [other than a handful of I* community sites of course].
I understand your concerns; if we want to replace example.com IMHO we must find a couple of suitable, short and easy names, maybe also fictional, and use them to label the target domain and its authoritative servers.
Can we use something on the ripe.net zone?
It seems unlikely that such a domain would have nameservers outside the I* community, and many (I have looked) have six or more NS, which is also a bit unusual and potentially giving the wrong impression. (And if you mean literally within the ripe.net zone, I already noted that it has six NS, located at RIPE-NCC and at I* colleagues: nic.fr, apnic.net, isc.org and arin.net) -- Roland Perry