[...] I don't mind new TLDs, but company ones are crazy and going to lead to a confusing and messy internet.
are either "confusing" or "messy" the best rationals for declining either or both of corporate names or trademarks? are these (corporate naming and trademark registration as generators) bounded generators of strings? what does unbounded change mean operationally?
Maybe we could demote the commercial ones to live under a single TLD to make things simpler/neater... :-)
well, back in wipo i or wipo ii time, there was the suggestion that a trademark tld would solve a bunch of problems. however, is the problem the absence of simplicity and/or neatness, or is dilution applied to a medium in which replication is policied differently than print the problem. see any of several presentations by lessig on the subject of basic applicability of property (intellectual) to new media, and if you're somewhat romantic (i am) rfc1591, on "ownership" of text labels. -e