On 02/20/2014 04:51 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
TLD proliferation is a scam by money-hungry registrars who want people to register (and thus pay) in multiple TLDs to "protect their brands".
Well, the ostensible pretext is that .com. is now ridiculously overloaded with myovercomplicateddomain.com because all the meaningful "short" names are taken, and this is supposed to allow you to register in the "right" TLD only.
Of course, that's not going to happen in practice as every TLD will be populated by all the people with .com domains for that reason. *sigh*
Back in the days when I had "hack.com", I refused to pay money for it to Internic when they started to charge money (thanks, P&G!) as a sign of protest. Fat lot of good that did me -- or the dns.
-- Marc