"!Dr. Joe Baptista" wrote:
>
> I agree with you. Much of the domain business to date has been driven by
> the scarcity of adequate top level domains. This is an artificial
> scarcity. dot.GOD and dot.MOO are two excellent examples of the need by
> users to expand the namespace.
>
> I have always advocated that the top level domain zone should simply
> include the english dictionary. People as a rule are not that interested
> in domains. They are however interested in "strings" or "combinations of
> words" which have some meaning and are easy to remember in order to
> facilitate their communication.
>
> The existing United States Government system is limited and lacks
> imagination for these purposes. A good example are recent attempts by the
> ccTLD operator for dot.hm to make the tld (for Heard and McDonald
> Islands) relevant by selling .hm as meaning "your home" as in your.hm is
> short form for "Your Home". Very confusing - because in the final
> analisys the domain owners who wants a dot.home tld has no interest in an
> abriviated name.
>
> And that brings us to the fundamental problem with the USG internet. It
> was run by Jon Postel - a good man - but a man who was completely devoid
> of any imagination. He was nothing more then a techi and as such his
> choice of delegating TLDs was techi based. Techi's as a rule like simple
> solutions and nameing systems which are easily recognized. Unfortunately
> this need for technical simplicity does not translate into practical user
> requirements.
>
> regards
> Joe Baptista
>
> http://www.dot.god/
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>
Baptista,
Why are you complaining always?
Both Jon Postel and IANA are dead for good! You can never bring back the
past.
The IAHC/CORE innitiative is also dead.
The US DoC/ICANN replaced all of them with their SRS/RRP shared gTLDs
system, currently com/net/org). These SRS broke up the monopoly, and I
believe we will never see monopoly again, in .com/net/org or in future
gTLDs.
Check out ...
http://www.icann.org/nsi/nsi-agreements.htm
NSI had announced its intent to publish the SRS RRP as an informational
RRP. Check out ...
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2832.txt
The future Unsponsored and Unrestricted gTLDs will be shared like
.com/net/org, I believe. The future gTLD registries MAY have to sign
agreements similar to the NSI/ICANN Registry Agreement. See the urls
above.
I hope that helped.
