Eric A. Hall wrote:
In general you are right, but in practical terms, there isn't much
difference between 20, 200 or 2000 TLDs, as long as they don't also
introduce, say, a billion phones to the service network.
no. a few hundred million hosts using (on average) two dozen popular TLDs
will generate twice the load on the roots as the same number of hosts using
(on average) a dozen popular TLDs.
That only holds true if the number of queries also doubles.
False. The caching system means that the roots don't pay per query;
they pay per cache miss--and the number of cache misses is going to be
roughly proportional to the number of TLDs.
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