How do I resolve the New.net™ domain name extensions in a business network environment?
If your business accesses the Internet via one of our service provider partners, then your staff will be already activated to access the new domains. If not, however, then there are several options open to you to get your company activated.

Enable DNS resolution of our domains without the plug-in
Alternatively, you can enable users to access our domains by adding ".new.net" to the search path in your company's DNS system that you wish to grant such access to; either centrally via the Registry, or locally on each machine via the Append Search Paths option.

Editing the Registry
Under Win2000 and WinNT, the "append these DNS suffixes" data are stored as comma-delimited data in the REG_SZ value "SearchList" in the following registry key:
KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
You will of course use Regedit to do this task, and you will need to have system administrator status to edit the Registry. Edit the value of "SearchList" to add "new.net" making it the last entry in that key (or the only one if you have no others listed already). You should propagate this change to the machines on your network in the usual manner in which you employ for such updates.

Adding "new.net" to the Domain Suffix Search Order in TCP/IP Properties
In the Control Panel on each machine that you wish to activate for the new domains, Open "Network."

Select "Protocols" and then select the item listed there, "TCP/IP Protocol."

Now select "Properties." In the properties box select the menu item "DNS."

At the bottom of this dialog box is a section headed "Domain Suffix Search Order." Click "Add" and then enter "new.net" and press "Add" again.

Now you have successfully added the new.net domain to your DNS search path and all the new domains will now be resolved.

Exit the Network control panels.

Note: if you have added new.net to the DNS search path via a Registry change, then this will also appear here too.