Hello: Today I have begun moving the dot.god registry to a new box. We will be running a one year test of the dot.god top level domain, formerly a private tld employed and operated by the Church of the Universe in various internal networks. The naming practice for tld.god began when it was decided to provide internal resources to the brothers and all systems on the private network were named something.god. later the brother introduced the dot.satan tld for naming buggy computers on the internal network. Alot of NT ended up in the dot.satan tld. At this time we are drafting a charter for dot.god. The gist of it will define that all dot.god second level domains are property. There will be a one time fee to setup the domain space, and then a yearly fee for maintanence. The yearly maintenance fee (our idea of property tax) will be between $3.00 to $5.00 per year. An administrative contract will provide management services for the tld until such time as a community of owners is established at which time such domain owners will be given control of the dot.god zone. We've been debating defining a community as anything from 5,000 domain owners to 1 million. I would welcome any suggestions concerning the above statement so I can present it to the brothers and sisters for consideration. I expect the tld will be tested for one year and we'll also be looking for people willing to test. You will get a free dot.god tld for your effort in helping us test. I'll be posting further details and applications regarding this to the following lists: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] NCDNHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] dot.god allows for anonymous registrations and all applications will be allowed a privacy flag. This means you can restrict people from accessing your email address using our whois server. Here's an example of a public whois output: $ whois -h whois.pccf.net god.god Welcome to .whois server Database updated on: Wed Jan 12 04:04:16 EST 2000 Domain: god.god Handle: 554909989110 Created: December 14, 1999 Updated: December 14, 1999 Status: Active Description: The Gates of St. Peter start here! Email: god@god Organization: GOD Inc. Virtual Map: PARKED AT NIC and this is an example of a private whois output: bash-2.03$ whois -h whois.pccf.net my.god Welcome to .whois server Database updated on: Wed Jan 12 04:04:16 EST 2000 Domain: my.god Handle: 76889-21445 Created: January 12, 2000 Updated: January 12, 2000 Status: Active PRIVATE DOMAIN: email domain contact via the following URL http://god.pccf.net/cgi-bin/emailadmin?my.god=76889-21445 The whois URL's by the way won't work at this time. Feel free to ask questions and more importantly your suggestions would be welcomed. Regards Joe Baptista