[dns-operations] stealth slaving the root zone

[McTim]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
> On 16 May 2012, at 18:07, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:31:29AM +0100, Jim Reid wrote:
>> ...
>>>
>>> easily serve a zone containing a few million names. [And FWIW I very
>>> much doubt the vanity TLD madness will continue long enough for the
>>> root zone grow to anywhere like that size: maybe a few thousand new
>>> TLDs at most.] There are of course non-trivial problems making every
>>
>>
>> Jim, if vanity has started to have bounds, I've not been aware of it.
>
>
> True. However the $186k entrance fee and other unavoidable costs will set
> some limits.

Isn't that the point of a barrier to entry? ;-)


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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel