Those of us who used augmented DNS roots knew of this problem long before 2008. In the various augmented root systems, there were a lot more non-country top-le

Those of us who used augmented DNS roots knew of this problem long before 2008. In the various augmented root systems, there were a lot more non-country top-level domains a lot (i.e. years) earlier, and people had already registered ones that conflicted with private-use top-level domains beloved of wrongheaded system administrators and developers. AlterNIC had corp., for example. So "recently" is even more relative than that. (-: