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

[Ray Taylor]

Danny O'Brien <

dannyspesh [dot] com

> asks:


> What alternative are you after, Ray?


Dunno, mate! And it was Tim's idea, not mine, any views, Tim? I don't know

enough about how DNS works to suggest an alternative. Somebody cleverer than

me would need to answer that one. Any offers?


> 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.


I'd vote for that.


RT



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