On 21-okt-04, at 11:05, Brad Knowles wrote:
Nevertheless, given the size of the population of the expanded EU, I don't see how this kind of scheme will scale well to handle potentially hundreds of millions of people. I don't think you necessarily need to go to a US-style city.county.state.us mechanism, but I think a three-level domain scheme would definitely be advisable.
It is extremely unlikely that this will provide any benefits, as I don't see how it would be possible to make the largest subdomain of .eu at least an order of magnitude smaller than .eu as a whole, without defeating the purpose of having a Europe-wide TLD in the first place. For instance, see http://www.nominet.org.uk/Statistics/RegistrationStatistics/ Around 90% of all registered .uk domains are .co.uk domains.