register esa.ch

>  > Arnold Nipper <nipper at xlink.net> writes:
>  > 
>  > Of course. Any other ideas how to cope with the problem?
>
>How about the latest Postel proposal:

Actually I quite like Jon's proposal but it was not quite the same
as you suggest. Replace .DE with .PVT below.

>Create 999 subdomains 1.de to 999.de.

Have to the the current DE-NIC consortium to agree to this and they probably
wont... 

>In each of them create 999 subdomains 1.x.de - 999.x.de.
>You have just mapped namesapce for a million registries
>under DE with names that have little to no connotations with
>anything.

Agreed.

>To anyone who wants to run a registry for individuals, 
>assign *randomly* an x.y.de combination. I can then find a
>friend who will register me as karrenberg.123.456.de, if
>I do not like his policy I will go to 453.295.de and register
>there.
>
>Anything wrong with that?

Nope, but it still doesn't help finance a NIC for DE or replace DE
with your favourite European TLD.

>
>Daniel

Dave