those were great times... sadly, the Principal Investigator passed away, one of the lead devs left the company for greener (for-profit) pastures, and the program was de-funded when DARPA priorities shifted post-9/11 and it all just kinda evaporated.
re: the moon - I honestly forget how that part was supposed to work....
yeah, those came a little later, but 2000 was the first year ICANN was ready to accept proposals for TLDs beyond the original 7. They made a call for innovative new uses of the domain system. My colleagues proposed .geo, ICANN went with .biz, .info, .name, .pro, .aero, .coop, and .museum.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I worked with some guys who put together an incredible proposal to ICANN for a new .geo TLD: http://www.ai.sri.com/dotgeo/
The proposal was not accepted, but .aero and .museum were, and we all now how those have since utterly revolutionized the internet.
http://www.ai.sri.com/digital-earth/
those were great times... sadly, the Principal Investigator passed away, one of the lead devs left the company for greener (for-profit) pastures, and the program was de-funded when DARPA priorities shifted post-9/11 and it all just kinda evaporated.
re: the moon - I honestly forget how that part was supposed to work....