RE: [registrars] Status report on single letter domain names

["John Berryhill" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>The upshot is "info.com good, com.info bad.  Museum.com good, com.museum
>bad.  Etc.".


And, perhaps having assumed it would be obvious, but maybe not...

This rule, while pleasing to someone's sense of power, is utterly stupid as
applied to a system where all future TLD's are unknown, since any future
(and presently unknown) TLD string is registrable at any time in any
pre-existing TLD.  So, over time, the rule itself does not prevent the harm
sought to be prevented.

It will of course be useful to a future archaeologist who digs up a set of
zone files, as the chronology of introduction of new TLDs will be evident by
the exclusion from each successive TLD of all of the pre-existing TLD
strings.  Fossil evidence of shallow thinking.