On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:59:24PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > More importantly, in light of the human problems with that scheme in > general, what is the technical benefit of having them? It won't reduce the > overcrowding in .com and .net, which IMHO is the only valid reason for > adding new gTLDs. This is an urban legend. No new TLD helps for the overcrowding, as all owners of trademarks have to and will register their name and enforce delegation of the name by law. And the few domains that will be allocated in purpose only TLDs do have their representation somewhere in another TLD also. .museum is a good example, for it is mostly a redirection service (and each time I browse the lists it is really astonishing how much names are allocated where there does no DNS records exist for and how much museums (even really big ones) you cannot find there)). And what do they do with the TLD? They try to "abuse" (IMHO) the DNS as yellow book with cross references and redundancies to geographical and "category" indices. However they have already noted that this won't work, so they use google to help others find the information they managed to loose. But it doesn't work, as most large museums don't use .museum. So at best a new TLD is something like a license to print money for the registrar. \Maex -- SpaceNet AG | Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Fon: +49 (89) 32356-0 Research & Development | D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 "The security, stability and reliability of a computer system is reciprocally proportional to the amount of vacuity between the ears of the admin" _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf