on 7/31/2002 7:24 PM Christian Huitema wrote: > Split .COM in two, both halves will be very the asymptote, both would > generate almost the same load on the root as the previous combination. If a truly generic TLD such as .com were randomly split, sure. You're less correct for categorical classifications (.com versus .edu again). This is not a call for a categorization of TLDs, although self-forming categorizations would likely emerge from a free market. > Adding more TLD and splitting the existing load across these new TLD > would definitely have an impact on the root. The number of queries would definitely go up, but not to a harmful level. If it were that bad, we would have consolidated the ccTLDs long ago. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/