> > so the claim that adding TLDs doesn't increase the load on the roots only > > holds if none of those new TLDs enjoy significant use. > > > > > In which case they're not needed. I'm not sure I would go that far - I can imagine that one or two TLDs might be useful overall even if they are rarely queried. e.g. .INT is useful even though there aren't many domain names under .INT, and probably not many queries for .INT. But I wouldn't want to have too many little-used TLDs, for reasons having nothing to do with root server load. Keith