Re: [dns-wg] Elimination of 2nd level ccTLD domain names

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <]

On 21-okt-04, at 11:05, Brad Knowles wrote:

> 	Nevertheless, given the size of the population of the expanded EU, I 
> don't see how this kind of scheme will scale well to handle 
> potentially hundreds of millions of people.  I don't think you 
> necessarily need to go to a US-style city.county.state.us mechanism, 
> but I think a three-level domain scheme would definitely be advisable.
It is extremely unlikely that this will provide any benefits, as I 
don't see how it would be possible to make the largest subdomain of .eu 
at least an order of magnitude smaller than .eu as a whole, without 
defeating the purpose of having a Europe-wide TLD in the first place.

For instance, see 
http://www.nominet.org.uk/Statistics/RegistrationStatistics/ Around 90% 
of all registered .uk domains are .co.uk domains.