From: jamesd@echeque.com
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 04:20:15 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <jfricker@vertexgroup.com (John F. Fricker)
Subject: Re: Alternic.net (was domain zapping)
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At 09:03 AM 6/28/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
> If you don't do it carefully,
> you'll end up needing a bunch of Above-Top-Level nameservers that
> serve the names of the tens of thousands of top-level domains.

Five thousand top level domain names is quite manageable, no big problem 
provided that their servers are reasonably stable -- and if the unstable 
ones do not work well, big deal.

A hundred thousand would be a problem.

Assume a top level domain typically lasts forever, and a top level server 
typically lasts ten years.  Assume two new top level domain names appear 
each day, and that it typically takes a several of months of reliable service
to be added to the most generally accepted lists.  This does not seem to
constitute an intolerable burden to most domain name server administrators.
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