In a previous message, Paul A Vixie wrote:
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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 -- David Carmean WB6YZM DC574 <dlc@silcom.com> System/Network Administration, Silicon Beach Communications Unsolicited commercial e-mail not accepted. Violators will be prosecuted.