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Berners-Lee on the TLD Explosion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-intentions-and-human-nature dept.

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.'"

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  1. fr0stuy pis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    zsdf

  2. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not bad... I was marked troll in less than 3 seconds after I posted that!

  3. Re:DOes a domain name owner... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Which they failed because of my hilarious post about microsoft.sucks, which I might add was a really great first post.

  4. Re:Relative failure of new TLD's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOL! I see I'm not the only one who filters .biz junk to the trash.

  5. Re:BSD on hot babe explosion... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's true that Ceren is (was?) a cutie, but did you see the spokeswoman of LinuxAsia? yum yum.

  6. Re:Relative failure of new TLD's by Jugalator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    kick your mom in the nuts

    That was more funny than trollish to me actually. :-)

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  7. Re:The problem with new tlds is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm glad you get very little spam at graham@graha.ms or sara@graha.ms

    I hope you continue to get very little spam at graham@graha.ms, grahams@graha.ms, grahamsz@graha.ms