Thus spake "Marc Schneiders" <marc@schneiders.org> > Since .com was running _on_ the root-servers.net until recently > without problems, what are we talking about? > > Naturally there won't be 1 million TLDs all at once. We could start > with a couple of hundreds. That would merely double the size of the > root. Okay, so when every foo.com. applies to become a foo., how will you control the growth? What is to keep the root from becoming a flat namespace within a few weeks? It won't take long for the masses realize that an SLD is not as prestigious as their own personal TLD... IMHO, the only solution to this problem is the elimination of gTLDs entirely. S