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Username: cambler
Date/Time: Tue, July 11, 2000 at 2:57 AM GMT
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Subject: Finite Resource? Hardly.

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The single-letter TLDs are a finite resource, yes. You acknowledge that, as do we in our position paper.

The two-letter TLDs are reserved for country code TLDs, and we also agree with that.

While the 3-and-up-letter TLDs are finite, by definition, they are functionally infinite. I submit that one would never see more applicants to run a registry than there are available words in the English language (not to mention other languages, or non-defined combinations of 3 letters). This is without even considering 4-letter TLDs and more.

I do, however, find your analogy to the homesteading act apropos. As point of fact, you might also consider the relevancy of the Water Act - namely, first to make constructive use of the water owns the water. It, too, is apropos.

Christopher Ambler
 


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