We have certainly run very low on good names, and this
is a problem. But we don't really know if adding new TLDs will make things better.
It will certainly shake things up, possibly causing technical problems and confusing
users, without providing much benefit.People have been thinking about this for
years and years, and in every proposal, the solutions to the hard parts are still
"to be determined". The fact that we have recognized the problem for so long, but
still haven't come up with a solution, should point out that there may be no good
solution.
If a .firm or .web opens up, there will be thousands of people trying
to be the first to get the best names (books.web, sex.web, etc). How do you decide
who gets them?
Only a couple of TLDs will become popular for businesses, and serve
as real alternatives to .com. This will simply prompt existing .com sites to register
under these names too, instantly removing the utility of the new TLDs. If computer.firm
goes to the same place as computer.com, then the new TLDs are useless. If it doesn't,
it creates confusion.
We might have a problem now, but any solution will as likely
make things worse as make things better. I think we should accept this, and stick
with what we've got.