Update from Marina Del Rey: New TLDs

----- Original Message -----
From: Rico Gloeckner <rico at noris.net>
To: Hans Petter Holen <hph at online.no>
Cc: <lir-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: Update from Marina Del Rey: New TLDs


> On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:35:35AM +0100, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
> > a small message from Marina del Rey, a couple of hours a go the ICANN
board
> > of directors
> > instructed its staff to enter into negotiations on the following new
> > top-level domains in addition
> > to the three well known .com .net .org
> >
> > .biz JVTeam
> > .info Afilias
> > .name Global Name Registry
> > .pro RegistryPro
> > .museum MDMA
> > .aero SITA
> > .coop NCBA
>
> So this Question may be dumb, but are these Domains _approved_ now or
> are they still in Negotiations if they should be approved?
>
Not really a dumb question as no one seems to know the answer :-)

Anyone know what happens when they are finally available (June 2001 eh?)? do
we all get our templates at the ready with our fingers on the send button!?


> (From my POV the latter is true, other people say they are already
approved,
> so... hm?)
>
>
> -- Rico Gloeckner

Regards
Peter Orton
REDNET Ltd