On 10-Mar-99 A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
> Karl,
>
> >I suspect everybody will say that the holder of xxx.com holds a domain.
> >But what about the holder of yyy.xxx.com?
> >
> >Why not? Are subdelegated domain holders inferior citizens?
> >
> >If so, then we've just ruled out everyone such as joe.com.au.
>
> Indeed. As Mark Lottor's host counts make clear, the
> top hundred 3rd level domains account for 24% of all the
> hosts. By any metric or construct, their importance
> in the DNS is significant.
> http://www.nw.com/zone/WWW/secondnames.html
>
> Even the 100th of these has more hosts in its zone
> than does any by the top 44 TLDs.
>
> The top 3rd level domain, has more hosts under
> it than any but the top 25 TLDs.
>
Not to mention that at one point ml.org home.ml.org and dyn.ml.org had a total
of over 150,000 combined domain names registered to individuals.
DHS.org, a recently created service of three of the mid-level staff of ml.org,
registered over 6000 hosts after only a couple weeks of public services (and
after only two postings about it to a few public forums).
I'd say this group of domain name holders will become a larger and more
significant group than they have ever been.
We have acquired a few domains recently for the sole purpose of a free third
level registry service, ourselves.
I know of at least 4 other free 3rd level domain services (with varying
levels of reliability) that are operational now.
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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10-Mar-99
Time: 14:36:01
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