On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, at 13:49 [=GMT-0600], Stephen Sprunk wrote: > Thus spake "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com> > > on 12/2/2002 11:13 AM Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > 4/ high entry fees Who will get the money? > Well, that'll certainly be needed, since the root registrar will need a few > hundred DNS servers to handle the volume of new queries in the root now that > you've made a flat namespace. Not long ago it was mentioned here, that 98% of all queries to the root-servers are typos etc, (NXDOMAIN replies). If there is a maximum number of characters of 3, the traffic would not grow that much at all, esp. since an NXDOMAIN is usually cashed shorter than a positive answer. Whether a root-server has to answer: .cim doesn't exist, or: .cim? go to a, b or c, it doesn't make much difference in load.