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Re: [Ietf] New .mobi, .xxx, ... TLDs?

2004-04-28 14:51:00
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:59:24PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
More importantly, in light of the human problems with that scheme in
general, what is the technical benefit of having them?  It won't reduce the
overcrowding in .com and .net, which IMHO is the only valid reason for
adding new gTLDs.

This is an urban legend.
No new TLD helps for the overcrowding, as all owners of trademarks
have to and will register their name and enforce delegation of the name
by law.
And the few domains that will be allocated in purpose only TLDs do have
their representation somewhere in another TLD also. .museum is a good
example, for it is mostly a redirection service (and each time I browse
the lists it is really astonishing how much names are allocated where
there does no DNS records exist for and how much museums (even really
big ones) you cannot find there)). And what do they do with the TLD?
They try to "abuse" (IMHO) the DNS as yellow book with cross references
and redundancies to geographical and "category" indices.
However they have already noted that this won't work, so they use google
to help others find the information they managed to loose. But it
doesn't work, as most large museums don't use .museum.

So at best a new TLD is something like a license to print money for
the registrar.

        \Maex

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