Auerbach Weighs in for gTLD Lotteries

Agree, especially since there are hundreds, if not thousands of operating registries already. I'd love to see "qualified" defined. If a registry has been operating for years, is it suddenly not qualified to operate based on some arbitrary criteria?

Unfortunately, auctions do result in those with the deepest pockets winning whether or or not they are any better at it than those with few dollars for acceptance to the "club." Some of the older registries have expended large sums over the years and are operating on marginal budgets. Why should they have to pony up more fees to do what they have been doing all those years?

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Re:This is a non-problem by lsolum Sunday April 06 2003, @03:54PM

Re:This is a non-problem
by KarlAuerbach on Sunday April 06 2003, @01:04PM (#11434)
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The DNS simply does not have the technical capacity to hold a zone large enough to satisfy every person or entity that might want to have a name.

I've suggested that the numerical limit is at least in the range of several millions - as demonstrated by the size of .com. But there are billions (with a "b") of people, and I don't think that anyone believes that a single DNS zone will scale to those numbers.

So I agree that technical competence (including adherence to standards) is a necessary condition, but it isn't sufficient. There needs to be some kind of system of allocation. I have suggested 10,000 new slots a year - that way it will take us a century to get to a million TLDs.

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Re:This is a non-problem
by Anonymous on Sunday April 06 2003, @02:53PM (#11436)

Scarcity MUST be perpetuated. Otherwise, the internet economy will sink further into recession. Like it or not, supply and demand will rule. The only reason ICANN included 7 new TLDs back in November 2000 was due to severe scarcity, and the high prices for decent .com .net and .org names. No one is really clamoring now for new TLDs, except for those IOD and New.net speculators who have experienced buyer's remorse. When beauty.us resells for a million bucks, then it will be time for new TLDs. Wait until then.

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Re:This is a non-problem
by lsolum on Sunday April 06 2003, @03:16PM (#11437)
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Re:This is a non-problem by KarlAuerbach Sunday April 06 2003, @03:28PM
- Re:This is a non-problem by lsolum Sunday April 06 2003, @07:31PM
  - It's A Huge Problem by Anonymous Monday April 07 2003, @05:39PM
    - Re:It's A Huge Problem by lsolum Monday April 07 2003, @08:27PM
      - Re:It's A Huge Problem by Anonymous Tuesday April 08 2003, @05:43PM
        Re:It's A Huge Problem by lsolum Tuesday April 08 2003, @08:20PM
        Re:It's A Huge Problem by Anonymous Wednesday April 09 2003, @08:04AM
        Pyramid Schemes by lsolum Wednesday April 09 2003, @09:58AM
        Re:Pyramid Schemes by Anonymous Wednesday April 09 2003, @10:16AM
        Re:Pyramid Schemes by Anonymous Wednesday April 09 2003, @10:55AM
        Re:Pyramid Schemes by lsolum Wednesday April 09 2003, @01:26PM
        Looks like a:pyramid scheme to me by fnord Thursday April 10 2003, @10:08AM
        End of Pyramid Scheme Discussion by lsolum Thursday April 10 2003, @10:31AM
        Not Quite the End of Pyramid Scheme Discussion :) by fnord Thursday April 10 2003, @11:40AM
        Re:End of Pyramid Scheme Discussion by Anonymous Thursday April 10 2003, @02:30PM
        Apologies to Fnord & More on Pyramids by lsolum Thursday April 10 2003, @05:10PM
        Re:Apologies to Fnord & More on Pyramids by Anonymous Thursday April 10 2003, @06:30PM
        Re:Apologies to Fnord & More on Pyramids by Anonymous Friday April 11 2003, @03:45AM
        Re:Apologies to Fnord & More on Pyramids by fnord Friday April 11 2003, @10:41AM

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