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 In the end, it may be best to do nothing (or close to nothing) and let .com continue toward exhaustion. Some anti-speculation reform may help postpone this, although UDRP and its partial reliance on findings of good and bad faith may be a practical limit. By the time the .com space is exhausted in English, there may be a Web successor. All the alternatives examined above would cause too much pain to entrenched interests and users. Meanwhile, third-party DNS services can experiment with new taxonomies. If a particular new method proves popular, users can adapt to the new method at their leisure and the root servers might find themselves out of work before .com runs out.
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  • Rationalizing the namespace has many possibilities of which the RFC you cite is only one. Many other classifications would work, for example, to deal with trademark namespace (ford.cars.us.tm, for example, as opposed to ford.models.us.tm) [with apologies to the Turkmenistan registrar.]

  • But the important part is that once you provide a one-to-one mapping for the names that people are legally entitled to, in the case of trademarks and other legally reserved names, which are bounded by both an issuing jurisdiction and a line of commerce, you can cease worrying about whether anyone is legally entitled to any of the more generic locations in the FQDN namespace, and let the market or the preferences of national registrars determine the outcome freely.

 
 
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