question about alternate TLDs

[ln]

What are exactly Atlantic Root and Pacific Root and Open Root Server Confederation ?
Are they like new.net ? They seem to be bigger though. Well they claim to run tons of alternate TLDs. How much internet traffic do they represent ?
And how about the duplicate .biz TLD (see this) ? If some ISP actually uses Atlantic Root to lookup and resolve domains, does that mean that at that ISP a .biz would resolve to the Atlantic Root .biz instead of the ICANN .biz ? How do they resolve this conflict ?

 

[Chicken]

That's what would happen. I can't think of an ISP that uses Atlantic Root as the default.

 

[thewitt]

Those using the alternate roots have listed them after the actual roots, so .biz domains would first be located in the real registry, and then in the bogus registry.

Personally, I would not use any ISP who included the alternate roots in their resolvers. I do not support Internet Anarchy.

-t