I am new here but not at the net. Have seen it evolve over so many years.The suggestion
is to stick to the 3 letter TLD and still mantain compatability with ever increasing
needs. trademark issues and adding a geographic element which should speed up things
in regard to routing. I call it the Shekar System.THe concept is to keep c=com
o=org n=net e=edu g=gov m= mil and so on for the equivalence of the current TLDs.
there are 26 letters to the alphabet so there is potential to add more. Thiis first
letter of the new TLD should automatically represent whatever existing TLD (com,
net etc)the second and third would be made up by the existing two letter country
codes.(in the interests of fairness)
For example .ouk could represent an org domain
in UK .nuk a UK net domain and so on. .cuk and .cus would represant a .com
in uk or the us. The numbers could be used for the net back office activity(2600
sub-options) where the individual need at English like famailarity may not
be as great. The '-' alone or in combination could serve at the at the second or
third position on the TLD for sublinks on to further pointing.
The existing registered
domains would have to be translated/transferred automatically over to this system....without
charge to the current users. the uniqueness of say a .com could be phased over
the existing registered period or by some cut-off date in the future. In any case
how many names are registered for a large multiple of years....one or two are the
norm and ten is the upper limit. The existing user should be given the first option
to choose the country letter combination by some fixed time period.
The other
advantage is that trade-mark issues would become more specific and country defined...
Most would not wish to register there specific doman all over the world.
This is
basically using the redundancy in the existing three letter TLDs and expanding the
possible domain name base by many multiples.
The jobs of routers could also be
made 'easier' with the gegraphic encodeing buit-in.....
Another new TLD that could
be considered is .MKT its a standard abbreviation for market/markets .