Hi,First of all, let's spell out a major part of the
problem: the internet namespace just wasn't created to handle a world-wide web with
a billion pages of content, or a stock market worth billions of dollars.
It's unfortunate
that the creators of the namespace created generic TLDs. I don't know why this was
done, but again, it couldn't have occured to them that the net would become what
it is today. Things would have been better with just country-code TLDs. Now, everyone
is accustomed to ".com", as companies like Amazon.com have spent a fortune branding
themselves.
Ah well. I'd say roll out as many new TLDs as people want. Just a few
to start, then maybe 10 every four months or so forever.
The more TLDs there are,
the less demand there will be. So, cybersquatting will die out. ".com" will not be
the only choice for marketeers forever; remember, just 5-6 years ago, no one had
ever heard of ".com"
".web" should be among the first TLDs offered. It's the natural,
intuitive choice. Plus, IODesign was led to believe that their efforts (and money)
would lead to them being accreditted as a legitimate registrar. But they should not
have exclusive rights to register ".web".
-joshua