[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kerry Miller) wrote:
> Can DNS performance be monitored, to provide a *technical
> justification for limiting a given TLD size?
Yes
> Its actually unreasonable, but this is where trying everything to the
> almighty dollar gets you: bigger firms tie up more namespace, and
> further suborn *function (technical operation) to *form (advertising
> advantage).
To clarify, what I meant was that I can understand why the TM
interests feel the way they do, even though I don't agree with them.
In any event, I consider the fact that the TM interests' concerns have
been given audience to be quite significant in a political sense.
> In any case, if the consuming public is easily confused, surely it
> is used to that by now -- but say! doesnt that imply a commercial
> niche? Ebay.portal could provide a suitable map so folks could sort
> out which one they wanted. (Hmmm, and then let that TLD be
> user-specifiable as the default...)
As I wrote before, the technology supports this. It just requires the
various "ebays" to agree to use it this way.
--gregbo
