Re: [wg-c] Choosing the intial testbed

[John Charles Broomfield <jbroom@manta.outremer.com>]

Hi William,
	maybe a bogus argument. In any case, there are a few million SLDs,
and only a handful of those sell/market/grant/give/whatever third level
domains in a mass market manner. Nothing stops them from continuing to do
so, and nothing stops anyone from setting up their own SLD and doing so
aswell. No problem. A non-issue.
My issue (should you care to address it, which I doubt) is that opening up
the root just moves everything one level up.
The "interesting" (as in people fighting to get the control of it) registry
level now becomes the root as opposed to the TLD-level which we have today.
And what is today the SLD level (where nobody fights for the right to become
a registry) would be the TLD level. The same viability (or lack of it) that
ml.org type organisations have today they would continue to have (or
continue to lack) but with a TLD instead. People would continue to flock to
(or avoid) them because at the same time they would have the possibility to
get their own TLD.

Yours, John Broomfield.


> On 23-Mar-2000 John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> > There isn't much business to be made by being the registrar for a domain
> > under a TLD (ml.org was a good proof)
> 
> Bogus argument, John.
> 
> ml.org wasn't a business, however it was a financial success.  Donations, ad
> revenue, sponsorships, paid all the bills.  It had over 200,000 registrations.
> 
> It failed because of a management dispute, nothing more.
> 
> 3rd level domain registries are thriving today.  The one founded by ex-ml
> senior staff at dhs.org has nearly 100,000 registrations in less than a year
> and a half of operations, and they are expanding as a result of increased
> revenue.  My own third level registry is increasing in size, and I'm rewriting
> the software to open 3 more 3rd level registries under more domains.  I
> registered a new domain just 2 days ago to provide a home for the open source
> software for running the registry (to be released as soon as the website is
> finished).
> 
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