International Top Level Domains

  > Petri Helenius <pete at sms.fi> writes:
  > 
  > Wouldn't implementing this proposal lead to increased load on the root
  > nameservers since more TLD's would be queried?

Yes there whould be an increase, but not really a significant one.

1) There are 184 TLDs there now: 

AD.  AE.  AG.  AI.  AL.  AM.  AN.  AO.  AQ.  AR.  ARPA.  AT.  AU.  AW. 
AZ.  BB.  BE.  BF.  BG.  BH.  BJ.  BM.  BN.  BO.  BR.  BS.  BW.  BY. 
BZ.  CA.  CF.  CH.  CI.  CK.  CL.  CM.  CN.  CO.  COM.  CR.  CU.  CY. 
CZ.  DE.  DJ.  DK.  DM.  DO.  DZ.  EC.  EDU.  EE.  EG.  ES.  ET.  FI. 
FJ.  FM.  FO.  FR.  GB.  GD.  GE.  GH.  GI.  GL.  GN.  GOV.  GR.  GT. 
GU.  GY.  HK.  HN.  HR.  HU.  ID.  IE.  IL.  IN.  INT.  IR.  IS.  IT. 
JM.  JO.  JP.  KE.  KH.  KI.  KN.  KR.  KW.  KY.  KZ.  LA.  LB.  LC. 
LI.  LK.  LS.  LT.  LU.  LV.  MA.  MC.  MD.  MG.  MIL.  MK.  ML.  MN. 
MO.  MR.  MT.  MU.  MX.  MY.  MZ.  NA.  NATO.  NC.  NE.  NET.  NF.  NG. 
NI.  NL.  NO.  NP.  NZ.  OM.  ORG.  PA.  PE.  PF.  PG.  PH.  PK.  PL. 
PR.  PT.  PY.  QA.  RO.  RU.  SA.  SB.  SE.  SG.  SI.  SK.  SM.  SN. 
SR.  SU.  SV.  SY.  SZ.  TH.  TN.  TO.  TR.  TT.  TV.  TW.  TZ.  UA. 
UG.  UK.  US.  UY.  UZ.  VA.  VC.  VE.  VI.  VN.  VU.  WS.  YU.  ZA. 
ZM.  ZW. 

2) Any frequently used TLD NS RRs will be cached.

So *this* is not a problem.

Daniel