frank s. writes: >The lesson here is
that if you want a name space or domain extention to thrive and you want to curb
cybersquating, less restriction on domain extentions is the answer, not more.<
How
many cybersquatting cases have there been on the .ca or .au domains? Less restriction
won't curb cybersquatting, quite the opposite. As for thriving, with some individuals
investing in literally thousands of names, with greatdomains.com listing almost a
million domains for sale, with the number of domains pointing to nowhere or a stale
'coming soon' page in the millions, the only thing thriving is the registrars' business
in selling domains as commodities.
Domain names were intended as a pointing device
so the net community had some sense of where they were going, now they might as well
be trading cards or beanie babies. Flooding the market with unregulated knockoffs
won't do the net community any favors. It probably won't help most collectors either.