On 2012-05-30 10:09 , lenz wrote:
The whole 3rd level thing is really dying out.
"Namespaces are hard, let's go shopping"? It remains unclear to me what actual naming issue is solved by allowing bulk registrations without any hierachy (as opposed to, eg, creating additional 2nd level _categories_ as required). But it seems like this sort of thing is going to get proposed every year or two until it passes (in the top level space, and .nz; IIRC this is about the third time it's been proposed in .nz). If only because the 2nd level has been so artificially restricted that there is a demand for "something else", and this is something. Alas once a moderated 2nd level is abandoned, there's no going back. Even if the naming issues don't go away. (In case it's not obvious I'm on record for believing that "let's just throw it all into one big pile" is an misguided idea. Was that domain "foo-the-movie.nz", "foothemovie.nz", "foomovie.nz", "moviefoo.nz"? Just how did they end up choosing to make their name unique from all the others? It's not just movies, but they seem particularly bad for choosing random uniquifiers.) Ewen