While your points are valid, they are better served by
the
.us registrar doing exactly as you suggest, create several
.us
second level domains, .tm.us, .reg.us (or .r.us), and
so on.
When individual state registrations are considered,
they too
can be assigned within the state of registration,
i.e. .r.il.us There is no restriction on the .com,
.org, .net or .edu
domains. I have no quibble with
.gov or .mil, given that the
DOD put forth a vast amount
of the funding to create darpa,
later expanded as arpa,
and ultimately into the internet of now.
I don't translate
my acceptance of .gov and .mil into creating
additional US-centric
TLDs.
I believe there is
a place for international registrations,
as I endorse in
my public comments to Working Group B. But
this should
be reserved for international registrations. I
have
no sympathy for countries that choose not to respect the
international intellectual property conventions, so if they are
excluded from any final system until they become signatories
to existing international conventions, so be it.
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