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

[Sam Michel]

Why is DNS so bad? Admittedly, it's not perfect, but consider the other

system we have for connecting to remote sites - telephone numbers - it's a

bit more friendly than an 11 digit number.


At 10:07 26/10/00 +0100, Ray Taylor wrote:

>

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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