Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
Increasing the number of TLDs that have rough semantic equivalents in other TLDs will generally increase the level of service, competition and overall health of the namespace. This may or may not be true with regard to .com.
I keep hearing this mantra, but have never seen anything resembling a real explanation of it other than "competition is good, and competition always increases the... etc." We've seen so many counterexamples of this mantra -- in health care, in telecommunications, in air travel -- that a real explanation of the way in which you see this happening is needed.
