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Arnold Nipper <nipper@xlink.net> writes:

Of course. Any other ideas how to cope with the problem?

How about the latest Postel proposal:

Actually I quite like Jon's proposal but it was not quite the same as you suggest. Replace .DE with .PVT below.

Create 999 subdomains 1.de to 999.de.

Have to the the current DE-NIC consortium to agree to this and they probably wont...

In each of them create 999 subdomains 1.x.de - 999.x.de. You have just mapped namesapce for a million registries under DE with names that have little to no connotations with anything.

Agreed.

To anyone who wants to run a registry for individuals, assign *randomly* an x.y.de combination. I can then find a friend who will register me as karrenberg.123.456.de, if I do not like his policy I will go to 453.295.de and register there.

Anything wrong with that?

Nope, but it still doesn't help finance a NIC for DE or replace DE with your favourite European TLD.

Daniel

Dave