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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.

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    "Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
  2. 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."