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I've been taken to task by ex-ICANN Board member Karl Auerbach because the big numbers I reported in the article above are wrong. They are, for want of a better way of putting it, embarrassingly small.
It seems that those numbers apply only to the number of domain names that are 255 characters long or have a 63 character TLD suffix. Clearly, I missed all the domain names that are 2 to 254 characters long and all the TLDs that are 1 to 62 characters long. The name space even bigger than I thought and I was out by a few billion billion.
It turns out that the number of possible TLDs is a very large number that is 96 characters long and, if you are viewing on a *nix 80-character screen or in an email client, one that will wrap around the page.
It's clearly obvious that anytime a number wraps around the page, well, it's simply much too big for ICANN (or anyone else) to ever claim as a scarce resource.
45740948715197463019198522067201064982535022753971 2687373445461577228502491435130988231174974800 TLDs don't lie.
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