Tim Bass wrote: <skipped> Oh, here we go again; arguing against mathematics. "Social Engineering" is merely a way to organize a society so it won't behave in a self-destructive manner. Free market rules (private property, freedom of trading, etc) is also a form of social engineering. Attaching any religious value to it is silly and counterproductive. In most cases the free market is quite adequate as a regulator. However, Internet namespace *is* a monopoly; and free market approach does not work here. There's no other Internet to go to if you don't like pricing or features or performance of the current one (and i'm not sure we want to have an alternative Internet). The problem with the "infinite" resources like namespaces is that they aren't. Every single name added to .COM does not do much damage; but the cumulative effect is that the whole system is going straight into a brick wall. It is no different from route announcements in terms of social dynamics. The math is also very much the same. --vadim PS BTW, is there any kind of statistics for .COM NS-es on the diversity of requests per different time intervals? How many requests are handled by .COM NS-es every second?