ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

[johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)]

In article <63ac96a50806300036u5c1a9bbdq4efb8e4879650434 at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>Terribly stupid question, but one aproppos to this thread.
>
>If my company pays for and registers a new TLD, let's
>call it "smtp" for grins, and I create an A record for "smtp."
>in my top level zone file, how will users outside my company
>resolve and reach that address?

In the usual way.  Try typing this into your browser's address bar:

 http://museum/

R's,
John