On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, at 11:13 [=GMT-0600], Stephen Sprunk wrote: > 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. Which would have the same result as what you predict for a few hundred extra TLDs. The solution to the whole problem is of course to replace DNS by something better. I've heard more than a few times in the past, that it will be replaced by other functions/schemes/directories. Not that I am aware of any that seems to qualify for all the functions so far. Still, it would be quite on topic, if I may say so, to discuss what we should develop to do a better job. Obsolete it, if you cannot reform it?
