Comment TLDs (Score 1, Interesting) 146
I never managed to understand why people keep harping about new TLDs.
While i can see the need for a directory service where one can type the same of a company and have a choice of web sites for companies with that name/service/etc. (yahoo works very well for me when i want to achieve that btw).
I apears to me that the creation of new top level TLDs is quite silly... the value today of .com is that there is not hierarchy... one may assume that a domain name ends with .com and thus it is unnecessary to query for it.
Creating new TLDs, assuming they would be succesful would defeat that value... one would be forced to figure out in which TLD a name resides.
Of corse since users do not care about new TLDs and assume that the Web site for foo is foo.com, new TLDs are largely a bust.
I've been hearing about new TLDs for years and years and i could simply never figure out what could the rational behind it be.
DNS is not a directory service, and would suck as one... assume there are 100 top level TLVs. You need a directory service to search them... then wouldn't it be simpler to start by building a directory service ?
As for alternative roots... that is an even sillier discussion.
Anyone can have a DNS server that claims to be root... and that will be 100% useless unless everybody else recognises it.
DNS seems to attract all sorts of insane people... which as every certified lunatic proceed to imagine their own parallel universe with alternative root servers, etc.
While i can see the need for a directory service where one can type the same of a company and have a choice of web sites for companies with that name/service/etc. (yahoo works very well for me when i want to achieve that btw).
I apears to me that the creation of new top level TLDs is quite silly... the value today of
Creating new TLDs, assuming they would be succesful would defeat that value... one would be forced to figure out in which TLD a name resides.
Of corse since users do not care about new TLDs and assume that the Web site for foo is foo.com, new TLDs are largely a bust.
I've been hearing about new TLDs for years and years and i could simply never figure out what could the rational behind it be.
DNS is not a directory service, and would suck as one... assume there are 100 top level TLVs. You need a directory service to search them... then wouldn't it be simpler to start by building a directory service ?
As for alternative roots... that is an even sillier discussion.
Anyone can have a DNS server that claims to be root... and that will be 100% useless unless everybody else recognises it.
DNS seems to attract all sorts of insane people... which as every certified lunatic proceed to imagine their own parallel universe with alternative root servers, etc.
