On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:57:20 +0100, Marc Schneiders said: > It would make long domain names of the type > domainnamebargainscheaper.com obsolete. Why? unless you manage to get 'cheaper.' as a TLD, and create the name as domain.name.bargains.cheaper. - or am I missing something? > Using domains will become > easier. Empirical evidence indicates the biggest problem is finding the 1 out of 41M .com domains and avoiding all the typosquatters... > Less load on nameservers (incl. tld servers) because of > typo's. See the NANOG url I posted yesterday - 98% of the TLD load is borked, and nothing we do about this will address the issues (in fact, if anything, the traffic for that part of the 98% due to non-caching will increase). > That is just on a practical level. Other improvements > (probably off topic here) include lower prices, breaking of a cartel. Notice that you don't get the lower prices and cartel breaking by increasing the number of domains, you get it by increasing the number of registrars. -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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