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Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they-started-about-the-same-time-as-slashdot dept.

djp928 writes "A study commisioned by Congress in 1998 to report on internet traffic has finally been published -- 7 years, two presidents, and one internet boom/bust later. Some of their findings include "DNS is good" and "We should probably have some more TLDs""

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  1. Re:no more TLDs, please by breon.halling · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ...countries like Tuvalu (.tv) reach technological savyness and find that their entire TLD has been used up by TV networks...

    According to Wikipedia:

    "In 2000, Tuvalu negotiated a contract leasing its Internet domain name '.tv' for $50 million in royalties over the next dozen years."

    They seemed to have profitted from having the .TV TLD, so it's not all bad.

    --
    "Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
  2. Re:no more TLDs, please by an_mo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    More, unlimited TLD, please. There is no technical reason why we should restrict addresses to .com, .org, etc... just free up the whole thing and let people choose the name they want to associate to their ip.

  3. The most needed TLD by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 5, Interesting
    We should probably have some more TLDs

    The TLD we all need most of all: .sux

    A place where no coropration is ever allowed to register their own trademark!

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."