But they are not the first. Go to http://www.open-rsc.org/setdns/ and you can set your dns to see some other TLDs that proceed and overlap with new.net. Looks like things are getting interesting. cheers matthew > > New.net sidesteps ICANN to increase domain names > > > http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/03/05/new.net.domains.id > g/index.h > > tml > > "Private company New.net announced plans Monday to offer a series of > > new Internet TLDs (top-level domains), from .chat to .xxx, > in a process > > [snippage]