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.'"

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Definitely. Why should Tim Barnards Lee get to com along and fuck up the intranet with all these new domain names? Am I the only one that thinks if .com was good enough for our parents, it should be good enough for us? Even microsoft has settled on either .com or they're new standard .NET. All these other new domains. like .biz and .info and google.com are just johney come lateley that missed the internet revolution and are now trying to caching in on some of the dot com paradigm. I don't know who this Tim B. Lee kid is, coming in and trying to change our internet with his new email schemes and web addresses. I'm all for freedom, but this character should be banned from the intranet.