Re: [wg-c] .com vs. ccTLDs in Europe

[Joseph Friedman <josephf@touro.edu>]

At 02:57 PM 10/20/1999 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 05:29:44PM -0400, A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
>[...]
> >
> > Other NICs like FR took different approaches.
> >
> > The tradeoffs were clearly different; however, in balance,
> > it would appear the findings of the Washington Workshop
> > proved rather successful and appropriate for the greatest
> > common good. No?
>
>No.  There is no necessary correlation.  Despite NSI's dreams to the
>contrary, the explosive growth of the net was not driven by the
>availability of domain names.  Also: arguably, if registrations in
>.com, .net, and .org had been much more restricted, there would have
>been growth in private third level domain registries.  Such a
>development would have been far healthier.

Why would that have been healthier?  I see no benefit to having restricted 
gTLD registrations to third level domains.  It would not have even been 
practical, since there were already many years worth of gTLD registrations 
in the second level, before NSI even came into the picture.

I disagree with that assessment.

--Joseph