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Berners-Lee on the TLD Explosion
kmccammon writes "Tim Berners-Lee recently released a white paper outlining a number of justifications for stalling (at least temporarily) the expansion of the top-level domains. Among the reasons cited: bad economics. As evidenced by the .biz and .info debacle, more top-levels does not necessarily mean more domain name availability. All it really means is that every .com/.net owner now needs to rush out and buy the same name under each new TLD. Thus, the 'value of one's original registration drops. At the same time, the cost of protecting one's brand goes up.'"
This is not clearly stated in the summary, but for those who don't already know, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is the one who has singlehandedly invented the World Wide Web and has written the first browser and server. See this.
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Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
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.... Crap... That's it.
.net version of it.
In all seriousness, this needs to not happen. I can tell you all sorts of horror stories of my own regarding a rather well know domain name and not owning the
Ted Tschopp
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I've seen those.. they must be due to misconfigured DNS servers! The admins don't realize how in-addr.arpa works.
When you look up the IP address of foo.com, you are looking up the right-hand side of the A record for foo.com, which is usually an address (12.23.34.45 for instance).
When you look up 12.23.34.45, you are looking up the right-hand sid of the PTR record for 45.34.23.12.in-addr.arpa (which should be foo.com).
I can't figure out how an in-addr.arpa record ends up on the right-hand side! I'm sure Windows is involved though..........
Sony wants to own sony.org so that no not-for-profit group can spring up and name themselves Sony... because the Sony company wants to own that four letter combination outright. They're scared of a non-profit cause springing up at that domain.
Amazon.com I bet is wishing they had grabbed Amazon.org back in the early days. Not that the Amazon.org group is unacceptable to a large number of people, but I'm sure you can find a few people who are offended by them... and that soils the "Amazon" word on the Internet. You get the idea, anything that can cost sales is something a business doesn't want to see happen.
Sorry to nitpick here: Tim B. Lee didn't invent the internet, he invented the WWW, which is just one of many "layer 7" applications that run on top of the TCP/IP internet protocols. The Internet (and DNS) existed long before the WWW.
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Dude, that's even more lame than hosts.txt. If you do the math you'd see there is no data trasnport big enough to prevent the root servers from melting down. Yo could decentralize it by having each host have the entire hosts file. You have a spare terrabyte on each machine that wants to do this, jah, to say nothing of the costs to trnasport the daily updates to that file.
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