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

Hi Piet,

> Now you hit upon an interesting issue. In NL we were more or less
> forced a couple of years ago to open up registration for private
> persons too, the reasoning behind it being 'fixed' e-mail addresses
> even when people moved to another ISP, which happened frequently.
> Initially we 'solved' this by introducing numeric SLD's (123.nl),
> under which they could register names. That was not a success, to
> put it mildly: all in all we registered less than 1000 domains of
> that kind. Main reason: people didn't like the numeric "extension".
> More recently .NL itself was opened up for private persons too, but
> now we see a vastly different situation from a couple of years ago:
> because of the massive amounts of spam 'fixed' addresses are not
> en vogue anymore and lots of people have loads of addresses. Which
> is just one reason why I don't expect TLD's to explode and a good
> example of a problem that solves itself.

Interesting. While I've many times have seen spam described as a 
problem this it the first time ever I've seen it described as a 
solution to another problem ;-)

Johan