Are bogus TLDs real?
They’re real in the sense that you can configure BIND to recognize them, and they work. (Last I knew.) They’re just not real in the sense that most people can look up hosts in them using their ordinary name servers (which point to the root name servers, which are controlled by the Man.) DNS is a consensus reality, and if you really want to establish a TLD secret clubhouse you can. You can even set up a web site that is only accessible to people who recognize your TLD, not to people who use your IP address. Doing that actually makes you cooler than everyone else. If you put something on such an 31337 web site that is so breathtakingly excellent that all the little users bug their sysadmins and ISPs to recognize your TLD so they can see your content, well, there you are. You win! Perhaps I’ll rewrite Richard Stallman’s Join us Now and Share the Software in the style of South Park’s Chef — and perhaps I’ll set things up so that if you want to hear me play Join Me Now, Woman, and Share th
