From their press release at
http://www.tiscali.com/press/releases/10552825f1a.html
"... As a result of this agreement, Tiscali will offer to its subscribers across Europe the access to the entire World Wide Web,
including the new alternative domain names. The agreement underscores Tiscali's commitment to embrace technological developments
that simplify, improve and expand the opportunities offered by internet ..."
John
I can see it now...
"Hello, Tiscali User Support"
"I found this really cool website, and I mailed the address to 15 of my buds,
and they're all saying it doesn't exist and I need to quit smoking crack"
"What's the website?"
"www.really-cool.alt. Now quit playing mind games with me and make it work for them."
Time for someone to put this alternate root on the real map and make it possible to use:
www.really-cool.alt.silly-new-tld-noXYZ.com
the XYZ to be able to separate all the different silly companies doing this, we need to keep tally of them.
* John Palmer:
From their press release at
http://www.tiscali.com/press/releases/10552825f1a.html
"... As a result of this agreement, Tiscali will offer to its
subscribers across Europe the access to the entire World Wide Web,
including the new alternative domain names. The agreement underscores
Tiscali's commitment to embrace technological developments that
simplify, improve and expand the opportunities offered by internet
..."
Interesting. How do they address collisions with New.net support in
their resolvers?
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
"... As a result of this agreement, Tiscali will offer to its subscribers
across Europe the access to the entire World Wide Web, including the new
alternative domain names.I can see it now...
"Hello, Tiscali User Support"
"I found this really cool website, and I mailed the address to 15 of my buds,
and they're all saying it doesn't exist and I need to quit smoking crack""What's the website?"
"www.really-cool.alt. Now quit playing mind games with me and make it work for them."
I fear that Tiscali won't be the ones facing the problems. Instead
we'll have
"Hello, Telenor User Support"
"My friend sent me a link to this really cool website, but your
stupid system tells me it doesn't exist"
"What's the website?"
"www.really-cool.alt. Now fix your systems so I can access it"
The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good
answer. Does anyone here have one?
Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids...
"Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no
extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too. How soon can we
start doing the same?"
This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually
also North American ISPs (to make this on-topic 
I hope the rest of
us can stand together against it. A good start would be to come up
with a common response to the two pressure groups outlined above.
Bj�rn
The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good
answer. Does anyone here have one?
to avoid being technical i guess the only answer would be to say this is a
private service offered to tiscali users and is not available to any non tiscali
users (you might want to point out this is 99.9% of the world in case $cust
feels like switching)
Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids...
"Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no
extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too. How soon can we
start doing the same?"
tell them you've been able to do it all along, its your network and you can
provide any unique content that you like, providing they understand this is
unique for your custs only .. think intranet
This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually also North
American ISPs (to make this on-topic
together against it. A good start would be to come up with a common response
to the two pressure groups outlined above.
a better worded explanation on a webpage would be good i guess...
anyway, i'm off the the UNIDT website, i hear '.tiscali' hasnt been registered
yet ;p
Steve
replying to myself. bad 
had this pointed out.. these are "official" according to inaic
http://inaic.com/index.php?p=faq006
and resolving "all known tlds" seems a bit of a stretch, i think they've missed
my '.foobar' tld on my local nameservers..
http://inaic.com/index.php?p=faq014
also for added humour, from the press release
http://inaic.com/index.php?p=tiscali-introduces
following the link: http://home.tiscali/
doesnt seem to work for me, hmm.. not great to have a broken link in a public
press release 
Steve