Re: Shared TLD's? Dead Idea. (Re: newdom BOF)

[Aveek Datta <MoNoLiTH+@CMU.EDU>]

Excerpts from newdom: 19-Nov-96 Shared TLD's? Dead Idea. (R.. by Bob
Allisat@wtv.net 
>  Shared TLD's are a dead issue.
>  The technical problems of even
>  a handful of generic, non-exclusive
>  Top Level Domains killed that idea
>  months ago. Why do you think the
>  Shared Domain mailing list sunk
>  into the mire? It is an utterly
>  unworkable, completely disasterous
>  idea.
>  
>  Far more easy to create 1,000's
>  of new TLDs. The effect will be the
>  same: End of monopoly and public
>  service. Time to move on...

The only way to find out is to try and implement it. Since I doubt
anyone's going to convince the Internic to start sharing .COM on a trial
basis, the next best thing is to share second level domains and see how
it works. As I have said before, this is one of the issues I will work
out with EU.ORG and probably several other domain name owners who would
like to use my registry services without MY name. I'm hoping to have
something in place by the end of the year.

Your solution for 1000s of TLDs just creates a similar problem to .COM
at the root level. And no matter what everyone else might say, some TLDs
are just better letter/number combinations than others. Ignoring that
fact is just simply being unrealistic.

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