I remember a comprehensive study being carried out that proved that the effect of New GTLD's and DNSSEC on the root servers will still be manageable.
Regards, Sent from my Nokia phone -----Original Message----- From: Noah Sematimba Sent: 20/10/2010 15:18:58 To: Hari Kurup Cc: Linux Users Group Uganda Subject: Re: [LUG] Radical change coming to Net addresses I dread the effect of this when it comes to the load on the root servers. Noah. On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Hari Kurup wrote: > > Come 2012, confused camera customers might be able to point their > browsers to a Web address that looks very different from what's > available today: support.canon. > > That's because the organization in charge of such names, the Internet > Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is planning on a dramatic > rewriting of the rules for Web addresses that could demote .com's > importance. > > Today there are just a few of what are called generic top-level > domains--.com, .net, .org, .biz, and .edu, for example. But ICANN > wants > to open the door to, potentially, hundreds or thousands more of > these GTLDs. > > That's a big change, especially for those who have a brand to > protect on > the Internet and were taken by surprise by the virtual land grab that > took place with .com addresses in the 1990s. Here's a look at what > GTLDs > mean now and in the future. > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20019282-264.html > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them > (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible > for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
