On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Dave Warren wrote: > > Icann reminds me of a multilevel marketing organization which keeps > > the namespace limited for no better purpose then to squeeze every > > dot.com > > penny out of the population that they can. > > Okay, somebody sit me down and talk to me like I'm a two year old. Say we > open up the roots and allow any idiot to register whatever root name they > want. > > Within a couple years won't we have a .com without .com all over again? All > the good names will be taken, and we'll be no better off. In addition, > we'll have lost the ability to add a .BIZ or a .INFO to try and open things > up a bit. > > Or am I missing something?
The dynamics of the domain industry will change considerably. roots don't make money tld managers do however. Opening up the root means alot more people making alot less money. You'll see tlds becoming what they always were - and with some cctlds stil are - mom and pop operations mainly. Right now the icann root represent a false scarcity. They only have 300 tlds in their root file. And to add any more is a song a dance requireing multiple meetings - lots of bucks - and the appropriate ass kissing. Now this is a far cry from the mom and pop days of Jon Postel who ran the whole thing and originally kept domains assignments in a scrap book. ICANN to me these days looks alot like an MLM shop. All the participants inclusding those here (resellers) are part of a vast MLM operation designed to enrich the pyramid bosses - of course those at the top of the pyramid are the registry's - registrars - etc etc. and at the bottom there are you guys and gal resellers. An inclusive namespace universe however changes all of that. In that case the pyramid inverts and anyone can offer domain services. Yes the root will grow significantly - it all ready has. Inclusive namespace has over 10,000 top level domains. But the number is irrelevant since the data storage requirements and server requirements scale well under the dns. Just look at the .com file - millions of millions of domains and still growing. One thing I do predict is that the .com file will shrink. But then again why should it not shrink. In the begging we all accepted .com was a trash tld - it was where we out domains that did not fit into the standard .net, .edu, org etc. standard. It was only the dot.com crazies who made it popular. regards joe
