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Old 06-24-2008, 05:02 AM  
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Originally Posted by Ron Bennett View Post
Adding many thousands, let alone millions, of real (as opposed to say IDN aliases) TLDs would stress the root servers, and create a huge single point of failure for custom-vanity TLDs.

Many ISPs / resolvers cache the root server addresses and the corresponding TLD zone data, so if the roots are unavailable / busy or whatever, it's generally a situation that can be worked around - that won't be true in a custom-vanity TLD situation. The upshot being that traditional, popular TLDs would end up being more reliable in such instances.
If everyone got off their asses an employed Ipv6 wouldn't that alleviate that issue?

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And from a business aspect, such a scheme would in essance be a monopoly far worse than Internic ever was - because the root would directly be serving resource records (ie. name server addresses) for end-user domains in the custom-vanity TLDs.
Not to mention how much easier it is going to be for scammers to use phishing techniques to scam people.
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