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Before anyone considers new TLDs, why not
investigate the percentages of existing TLD, second
level domains that are actually used, for
each TLD. There
seem to be hundreds if
not thousands or millions that are
not used at this time. It seems to me
that the most intelligent
way to make names available, while
inhibiting speculative
purchasing, is to advance the mechanism of geographic
stratification that was used for the .us TLD prior to making
second level names so broadly available. In other words
keep the existing system (myname.us) but also enable
easy registration and use of names by
geographic subdivision.
(myname.ny.us, myname.ny.ny, etc.) Of course the speculators
would not like this since to hoard all of a popular term, such
as
"football", would require trying to register "football" under
each, state,
county, city and town. Better yet, restrict such registrations
to
residents of such geographic designations. This might even cut
down
on the abuses of domains, addresses, and email since
accountability
should be better and filtering could be more specific. Better
search
habits might even be encouraged as folks become more geography
conscious. Why not do this then see if there is much
significant
real demand for new TLDs.
Foster Taft
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