Robert Shaw wrote:

At http://www.itu.int/net/cctlds/nics.htm is a preliminary survey conducted by ITU of Internet ISO 3166-based top level domains. The material is in in draft form and is made available in order to solicit public comment. Information includes all known URLs for registration. While every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy, the information cannot be considered authoritative as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the authoritative source for ISO 3166-based top level domain delegation information. All raw data gathered has been and will continue to be provided to IANA.

Comments and/or corrections on these pages should be sent to Ms. Asa Johansson at <asa.johansson@itu.int>.

Why did the ITU do this research if IANA, is clearly "authoritative"? You'd think ITU has quite enough to do managing normal telephone issues without also taking on the role of Research department for the Internet. Unless all those telcos behind ITU have finally realized they are about to be obsoleted and/or bankrupted by the once obscure internet? And are scrambling to gain a foothold and eventual control over the net to save their power/profits? Maybe a better expenditure of ITU's vast resources would be to study why half of humanity hasn't even used a telephone let alone had one. They might find that sad situation has something to do with the monopoly vise grip these same telcos have held on telephony all these years. A grip that may well be lost with the incursion of free competition from the upstart and soon-to-be obequitous Internet. As in Internet telephony already taking a nice chunk out of all those massive Bell type corporations' nice black ink profits. Bob Allisat Director, World TeleVirtual Network bob@wtv.net - (416) 534-1999 - http://www.wtv.net Free Community Network - .FCN free TLD Registry - http://fcn.net