In a previous message, Paul A Vixie wrote:
[snip]
What ISP's can do is stop registering trash domains. Tell your users to put
their WWW pages in a domain park of some kind, rather than allocating a TLD
for every one-person "company" whose scope of operations is a local city or
neighborhood.
How do you educate the mom-and-pop ISPs and businesses? If I do this
now, they just walk two blocks away to the other guys, who will register
them. Changing the paradigm probably won't be possible until either
a technical issue of the impact of prefix-filtering and address allocation
restrictions forces the issue, or the namespace looks like alphabet soup
like you mention, and becomes almost a non-differentiated mass.
The Madison Avenue gang won't like a heirarchical product branding scheme,
which is probably how they look at domain names now.
<URL:ftp://ftp.vix.com/pri/vixie/dns-badnames.psf.gz> is my position in full.
I'd like to, but you've disappeared from all the NAPs! Been almost an
hour now:
beach% traceroute f.root-servers.net
traceroute to f.root-servers.net (192.5.5.241), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 sbc-mci-gw.silcom.com (199.201.128.254) 3.9 ms 5.464 ms 3.457 ms
2 border2-serial4-3.Bloomington.mci.net (204.70.49.25) 10.829 ms 9.44 ms 14
.463 ms
3 border2-serial4-3.Bloomington.mci.net (204.70.49.25) 10.071 ms !H
* 9.767 ms !H