On Friday 30 August 2002 Dean Pemberton wrote:

Just got this back from InternetNZ re the .geek.nz submission.

Interesting to note two things.

1) My request to have .geek.nz processed at the same time as .bank.nz was rejected. They can only apparently handle one at a time. 2) There will be no more 2ld's until they finish a full review.

Got in just in time but there will be no .celt.nz =(

The wheels are in motion! http://geek.nznog.org/ Come, geeks! To arms! Reclaim your heritage! Add your name to the list! Stand up and be counted! etc! [obOnTopicContent: beers are on Dean if this gets the kind of voter support it so clearly deserves; developers: better not hard-code those regexes, geek.nz is coming; ISP helpdesks: prepare your staff to answer the surely massive barrage of interest in getting geek.nz domains from customers; NetOps: stand by for floods of traffic to authoritative servers as people who can't stand the excitement issue thousands of resolver requests for names under GEEK.NZ, etc, etc, etc.] GEEK.NZ CONSULTATION PROCESS BEGINS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6 December 2002 The first stage in the approval process for the proposed new GEEK.NZ second-level domain has begun. The office of the NZ Domain Name Commissioner has confirmed that a timetable for processing the GEEK.NZ application has been proposed, with public consultation to take place over the Christmas period. "The application for GEEK.NZ was submitted a few months ago, but we were happy to let the Domain Name Commissioner delay the approval process until the BANK.NZ application had been dealt with," confirmed Dean Pemberton, who made the initial application. The application for GEEK.NZ was made on behalf of the community technicians and engineers who built the Internet infrastructure in New Zealand over the past twenty years, and who continue to push it forward today. Despite the changing fortunes of the Internet and telecommunications industries, the technical community responsible for keeping the Internet running smoothly remains tightly knit and well-connected. "GEEK.NZ defines a distinct community of interest, just as other second-level domains do," explains Andy Linton. "However, GEEK.NZ also provides an opportunity for deploying additional, more experimental services such as DNS Security (DNSSEC) and IPv6, which are many years away from deployment in other registries, like CO.NZ." Linton sees GEEK.NZ performing a role for DNS service which is analogous to the role the high-speed, optical research network, "Internet2", provides for ISPs. "The community which GEEK.NZ serves is technical, and is driven by the development of technology in a way that the communities served by other second-level domains are not. You couldn't experiment with DNSSEC in CO.NZ without risking the quality of service that the commercial community expects, but experimentation is a way of life for the geek community," Linton added. GEEK.NZ will provide a place in the DNS where the community of technical people in New Zealand can express itself, thrive and expand. Providing recognition to the technical community in this way will allow New Zealand to demonstrate its commitment to the people who fuel the knowledge economy, and help slow the otherwise steady procession of technical people leaving the country every year. The approval process for GEEK.NZ includes a period for public consultation, which is followed by a vote conducted over the internet. Pemberton expects the NZ Domain Name Commissioner to publish the timetable for consultation this week. For more information, contact: media(a)geek.nznog.org More information on the GEEK.NZ proposal can be found at: http://geek.nznog.org/ ENDS - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog