Greg,
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Skinner writes:
> Most of what I have read on this subject is personal opinion, as there
> is no hard data (we don't have hundreds of thousands of TLDs now), nor
> have there been simulations, as far as I know.
Well, there is Germany with its 70000+ Second level domains. It's not
melting down...
At all.
> I happen to agree with the opinions expressed by Keith Moore, as they
> match with my experience.
So I happen to disagree, from my experience.
And?
> But even you would have to admit that by adding lots of TLDs, extra
> orders of magnitude are induced in the DNS process, because queries
> are going further up the tree than they would otherwise be.
So What? More horsepower. BIND can take it. A
nd if it's really a problem add on a SQL engine. Which one should
perhaps do anyway.
More Horsepwower...
I am not a proponent of massive proliferation of higher levels (there
are 8 2LDs in Namibia :-)-O), however as they say in Medicine these
days, there is just no evidence to support your and Keith's assertions
that there is a technical problem.
el
