{sort-of IETF off-topic but we have RFC3675} On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 09:59 -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 11:58 AM -0400 10/3/05, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > >Wouldn't it at least make sense to require that the .gprs > >"pseudo-TLD" be reserved by IANA under Section 4 of RFC 2860 > >("technical work items" and > >"assignments of domain names for technical uses"), with the proviso that > >this TLD must not be resolved, except locally ? > > Absolutely not. There are already literally dozens (if not hundreds) > of such local tlds, some of which have the same names for different > purposes.
You don't want .sms, .wap, .wap2, .gprs2, .turbogprs ??? :) There is already a .mobi coming up too, another useless domain. http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/mobi.htm Will we also get .computer for computer manufacturers, .toy, for toys? I don't see any reason why they could not have sticked their .mobi under, something odd; like say: mobi.corp.com, aren't they doing the mobile stuff in the first place? But the reasoning for this domain is really great: stakeholders -> money. http://www.domainbank.net/mobi/index.cfm also lists an excellent things: "As many companies were beaten in the rush to acquire desired .com domain names, the .mobi sTLD is a new channel to differentiate your business from the sea of .coms and .nets and to protect your brand name." and I really wonder who is going to deliver the news for all the mobile users: "Further attributes of the .mobi sTLD include personal names (e.g. User_name.name.mobi) and location-based services (e.g. NewYork.news.mobi) utilizing the .mobi sTLD." IMHO there should have been only: - cc-tld which each contain: - gov.cc - for goverment organisations (including military) - <name>.cc : for companies and others, first come, first serve no products, no movies, only organisations/lastnames. - int for global organisations/companies Indeed way less than what everybody else seem to want. But unfortunately we got the mil/gov/net/com stuff as legacy, which sort of breaks the hierarchy. New domains though are uncalled for IMHO. DNS is there for name esolution, not for finding a company or a product. hamburger.int is useless imho, as it is sold by company X, if they want that in the dns then do it hierarchically: hamburger.foodcorp.int, unless the shop is only there in one country: foodcorp.cc If you want to find this hamburger, you will use a search engine, they nicely index it for you, dns doesn't index anything in that way. But apparently that is not how all the domain-selling cash cows are thinking, they just see $$$.... Greets, Jeroen
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