Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:39:29PM -0700,
>  Tony Li <tony.li () tony li> wrote
>  a message of 20 lines which said:
>
> > Actually, I think you've got it backwards. .us and all of the other
> > country-specific TLDs are the last vestiges of nationalism.
>
> The problem is that all gTLD are controlled only in the US (even more
> than the root is). So, they are international only in name.

which part is controlled? the introduction of new TLD or the running of
the TLD services? I may be mistaken, again the slow reading is biting me,
but PIR and Melbourne-IT partnered to run .org, yes? (then passed the
operations on to Afilas and from there to ultradns?)