On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Joe Greco wrote:
For example, I *ought* to be able to find the Police Department for the City of Milwaukee at something reasonable, such as "police.ci.milwaukee.wi.us". If I then needed the police for Wauwatosa, "police.ci.wauwatosa.wi.us", or for Waukesha, "police.ci.waukesha.wi.us".
To extend that principle, companies that have an exclusively local presence probably don't need to be occupying space in a TLD. That's the Marty's Pizza example.
martyspizza.brookfield.wi.us works great. At what point in Marty's expansion does Marty's Pizza get to move to a TLD? The RFC leaves management decisions to an alluded to but unnamed group. Plus, WTF: John-Muir.Middle.Santa-Monica.K12.CA.US Cut and Paste or die trying. I doubt parents will remember or type that. Besides, sophisticated search engines are making Domain Names less relevant anyway. I can find Marty's Pizza in Brookfield via Google or Yahoo in a matter of seconds. Let the search engines organize the web, not DNS. Schools are going short and sweet, just like businesses, using the existing TLDs. martyspizza.net is fine. So is johnmuirsl.org. No need for 30 more or 3000 more TLDs. Beckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------