Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 19:42:33 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com Cc: Steven Ames <steve@news.cioe.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www.edns.com Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970407194232.00c450c8@mixcom.com>
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At 12:41 AM 4/7/97 -0400, C Matthew Curtin wrote: >I'm actually not terribly pleased that IAHC is going to add new TLDs. >The system is fine as it is, but the problem is that it isn't being >used as it was designed, and now, instead of doing something that >makes sense, people are out there registering dozens of domain names, >creating a horrible waste of the namespace, etc. Adding more TLDs >isn't going to fix this: it just make the namespace wider... It's >only a matter of time before we're facing the same problem >again... Then what, add more TLDs? Allowing someone to register a TLD isn't a good idea. Some the extensions were logical, but I think the whole idea came about due to the fact that many businesses consider the "name" of something to mean a lot. >No, I think that the namespace should be given out a little less >freely, at least in the "big" three-letter TLDs... Not only is having >lots of TLDs gross and difficult to make sense of, but it does create >more load on the root nameservers. (Not in the number of requests, of >course, this will increase as long as the number of DNS lookups >increases, but it will increase the size of the tables of domains and >their associated root nameservers that need to be maintained.) I can not agree more with the first point. All these fly-by-night places that mass mail and let the domain die. It should be required that the domain is paid, before it is activated. More TLD's mean that I have to update tables for our mail proxy. >I'd be perfectly happy to see the TLDs all go away, except for the >two-letter country code domains, and ".int"... I don't see it happening, I just hope that it doesn't get out of control, otherwise it may start to look like a listing of newsgroups. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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