On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, at 17:13 [=GMT-0500], Keith Moore wrote: > > If when .com breaks, the other TLDs still work... > > then, isn't that a good reason to have more TLDs? > > it's a good reason to not put all of your eggs in one basket. > > also by limiting the size of the root we make it somewhat easier > to verify that the root is working correctly. So this means not millions of TLDs. I agree with that. Not even thousands, I would say. Not everyone who now has a .com needs a . That would flatten the namespace, already flattened to the second level, completely. First target: twice as many as now. And these 300 or so will also include a lot that will be small like so many ccTLDs now are. -- [05] Round the clock here on the internet. http://logoff.org/
