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Re: [dnsproc-en] Re: Suggestions for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- To: "Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.com>, "Brian E Carpenter" <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: [dnsproc-en] Re: Suggestions for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- From: Joseph Friedman <josephf@touro.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:59:46 -0500
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At 09:20 AM 11/11/98 -0800, Christopher Ambler wrote:
>>> Add as many new gTLDs as possible.
>>
>>The technical opinion that the IAB reached a long while back is that
>>adding hundreds of TLDs is technically safe, but that adding
>>thousands would take us into unknown territory in terms of
>>operational scale, and should be avoided in the foreseeable future.
>
>The irony being that there are only a handful of companies that want
>to be registries, representing, at most, 30 TLDs.
But there are MANY generic terms that many people want to use as a TLD.
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