Thus spake "Joe Baptista" <baptista@dot-god.com> > I disagree. The current arrangement of increasing registrars looks alot > like a multi level marketing scam. Basically the goal is to squeeze every > penny out of the dot.com universe. It' don't wash. > > Users want *.choice in their tlds. The whole idea behind tlds are to > establish simple nameing conventions which give users of domains > an internet precense. unfortunately there's not much choice in the > existing USG root infrastructure. Users are by their nature creative when > it comes to naming concervtions and i'm sure they would have more fun in > the alt.universes then they do in the USG system. Unfortunately the USG > is not very creative in this regard. I'm not sure it's been demonstrated anyone other than the _registrars_ actually want more gTLD's. biz and info have been up for quite a while and I can only think of one web site I've been to in either of them. Despite the heated arguments and bureaucratic infighting, demand simply hasn't materialized when we increased supply. End users expect everything to be in .com, period (no pun intended). I still get multi-year Internet users (admittedly of the AOL variety) who don't believe my personal email address in .org is real -- they've never noticed anything but .com and .net out there, and they're confused enough about the minor difference between those two. They don't need another few thousand TLDs. S