October 17, 2000 6:06 PM   Subscribe  All of this talk about
madonna.com and string.com seems to me to be just a mad scramble
to grab a 'scarce' resource (ie. the .com TLD). The only problem
is that the scarcity is completely artificial. Networking expert
and lawyer Karl Auerbach has just been elected to ICANN as the
US at-large rep on a platform of reducing ICANN's role from it
current one as a overreaching international law making body. He
says that the DNS system is capable of handling far more than
just a few top-level domains like .com, .org, .net, .uk, .au
etc. He says it could handle millions. posted by lagado (5
comments total)  From Domain Name Policy - Top Level Domain
Policy  My position has always been that there ought to be no
impediment to the creation of new TLDs - but with one proviso:
There is a limit out there somewhere on the number of TLDs,
probably somewhere between one and several million, where DNS
loses its value as a hierarchical system.  So I'd let anybody
operate any TLD for any pur