Re: UKNM: What if it's all shite? (was .TV)

[Danny O'Brien]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:25:44PM +0100, Ray Taylor wrote:

>

Ben Hunt <bhuntpoulternet [dot] com> said:

>

> > VHS had no technological competitive advantage over Betamax,

> > but a slightly bigger initial market share for VHS caused market lock-in

> and

> > the eventual extinction of the fitter system.

>

> But unlike the VHS/Beta format wars in which consumers voted with their

> wallets, internet users do not get a choice. It's "DNS" or sod off.


What alternative are you after, Ray? Every alternative to DNS

proposed has usually been controlled by, at best, an oligarchy of

companies who would gladly rip you off as badly as NSI and the

registrars, with the added bonus of an even *less* stable

infrastructure to hang it all off.


The best solution, it seems to me, is opening up the registrar

market, and allowing a free market in top-level domains, as

proposed by Karl Auerbach. That way, you'll get price

competition in the TLD market, and the entirely artificial

trademark controversy (created by the spurious perception

of scarcity in the DNS namespace) will dissappear of its own accord.


http://www.cavebear.com/ialc/platform.htm#dnsp-stability


>

> Ray Taylor




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