[humorix] ICANN Announces Unlimited TLDs For Private Use

[James Baughn <jbaughn@ldd.net>]

ICANN Announces Unlimited TLDs For Private Use
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer, bero@redhat.de
November 11, 2001

In a stunning move, the Emperor of ICANN (ICANN Controls
All Network Navigation) announced today at a press
conference that the "non-profit" organization will make
available an unlimited number of Top Level Domains (TLDs)
for private use only.

When asked about the "private use only" part, the ICANN
chief explained that users can now set the hostnames in
their private networks or company intranets to fancy names
like mailserver.companyname or spamrelay.aol.

These host names/domain names will, of course, not be
visible or resolvable outside the private network.

All you need to do is register your private TLD (pTLD), or
subdomain of someone else's pTLD, at ICANN's
IntranetNic.com for the "small fee" of $500 per year. All
names under any pTLD are guaranteed to be available for new
customers. During the next month, customers who sign up for
the program will receive the "localhost" name absolutely
free.

Microsoft has already implemented this feature in an update
to Windows XP, which is automatically installed when
launching the online software registration tool. "Companies
using pTLDs without paying will be uncovered as the thieves
they are", Microsoft spokesman and ICANN member William Ipo
commented.

The Bush administration welcomed the new pTLD policy
enthusiastically by immediately registering its ".war",
".kill" and ".lies" domains.  

"The new pTLD program is a major step in fighting
terrorism", Bush spokesman Frank Raud explained. "We can't
wait to learn who will register .terror, .al-quaida, 
.taliban and .bin-laden, and then kill them, the ISPs
harboring their  gateways, the makers of their routing
software, and the companies providing their electricity."

In support of the move, Raud announced a pending law dubbed
Secure  networkS Service Certification Act (SSSCA) 2.0,
outlawing any operating system that allows using pTLDs
without registration, or that can easily be patched to do
so.

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