[dns-operations] It's begun...

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at tux.org
Thu Nov 14 21:41:42 UTC 2013


On 2013-11-14 13:37, Dan York wrote:
...
> Given the rate these TLDs are supposed to be released at, I expect 
> these
> messages about domains being delegated will get to be old after a 
> while...
> but at the moment there is a certain level of entertainment value in
> seeing them.  Of course, when it will get really interesting will 
> probably
> be in January or so when General Availability hits for some of these 
> and
> we start seeing what levels of interest there really is in all these
> newgTLDs.  Should be an interesting ride!
...


When it will get "interesting" is when there are 5000+ TLDs, 2500+ of 
which have been abandoned because the entrepreneurs who proposed them 
decided it wasn't fun and abandoned them, leaving lame servers galore.  
Is there any mechanism in place to remove lame TLDs?

Interesting times, indeed.


Joe Yao



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