On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:51:26PM +0900, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote a message of 10 lines which said: > similarly for the root, as rip.psg.com serves some tlds. The request has to come from a TLD manager (anyone which uses rip.psg.com) but, of course, you would get a more authoritative reply from IANA.