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

[tor@wtv.net (Bob Allisat)]

I, Bob Allisat, wrote:
> 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...


Aveek Datta wrote:
: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.

 Well I'd say 10 to 15 letter
 and number combinations opens
 up a lot of possibilities. That
 will give us at least five years
 time to figure out something a
 tad more sophisticated and
 scalable.

                             Bob Allisat

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