On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, at 11:13 [=GMT-0600], Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Thus spake "Marc Schneiders" <marc(_at_)schneiders(_dot_)org>
Since .com was running _on_ the root-servers.net until recently
without problems, what are we talking about?
Naturally there won't be 1 million TLDs all at once. We could start
with a couple of hundreds. That would merely double the size of the
root.
Okay, so when every foo.com. applies to become a foo., how will you control
the growth? What is to keep the root from becoming a flat namespace within
a few weeks? It won't take long for the masses realize that an SLD is not
as prestigious as their own personal TLD...
IMHO, the only solution to this problem is the elimination of gTLDs
entirely.
Which would have the same result as what you predict for a few hundred
extra TLDs. The solution to the whole problem is of course to replace
DNS by something better. I've heard more than a few times in the past,
that it will be replaced by other functions/schemes/directories. Not
that I am aware of any that seems to qualify for all the functions so
far. Still, it would be quite on topic, if I may say so, to discuss
what we should develop to do a better job. Obsolete it, if you cannot
reform it?