Stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So, the mystery of what is the ORSC "policy postion" is that ORSC
>advocates opening up the root to as many TLDs as the market wants.
>No more, no less! And sooner rather than later!
Hmmm ...
Does anyone have an idea of how many TLDs potentially will be
registered? For example, how many types of business (or any other
organizational) classifications exist? Would TLDs be restricted to
marks only?
The reason I am asking is because once we get to the level of hundreds
of thousands of TLDs, we risk the DNS performance problems that have
been discussed earlier. That would have an effect on the entire
Internet. So it seems at the very least, we need to proceed slowly in
adding TLDs, so we can study its effect on DNS performance and make
changes to it if necessary to allow it to scale.
Also, in response to Martin Schwimmer:
>In other words, if you added .inc, .ltd., .firm, .shop and .store
>tomorrow, then anonymous folks could tomorrow register ebay.inc,
>ebay.ltd, ebay.firm, ebay.shop and ebay.store, all of which, in my
>humble but professional opinion, are likely to create confusion with
>our friends over at ebay.com.
This seems to be a reasonable concern, given that there is already
quite a bit of registration of companies in ccTLDs. Wouldn't the
companies who are interested in having those names in all (or even
most) TLDs pursue the same avenues they are pursuing in the existing
gTLDs?
--gregbo
