On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 07:54:57 -0400 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> mick crane wrote: > > I have wondered what they do to stop people broadcasting their own top level > > domain. > > Nothing. They don't have to. > > If you want a top level domain and you control your own > nameservers, you've got it. > > But nobody else is likely to query your nameservers about it, so > it won't be used by anyone else. > > This can actually be useful: you can define .crane for use > within your house, and now you have names that nobody else will > see. And there are actually alternative DNS roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root Celejar