Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> writes:
Wouldn't implementing this proposal lead to increased load on the root nameservers since more TLD's would be queried?
Yes there whould be an increase, but not really a significant one. 1) There are 184 TLDs there now: AD. AE. AG. AI. AL. AM. AN. AO. AQ. AR. ARPA. AT. AU. AW. AZ. BB. BE. BF. BG. BH. BJ. BM. BN. BO. BR. BS. BW. BY. BZ. CA. CF. CH. CI. CK. CL. CM. CN. CO. COM. CR. CU. CY. CZ. DE. DJ. DK. DM. DO. DZ. EC. EDU. EE. EG. ES. ET. FI. FJ. FM. FO. FR. GB. GD. GE. GH. GI. GL. GN. GOV. GR. GT. GU. GY. HK. HN. HR. HU. ID. IE. IL. IN. INT. IR. IS. IT. JM. JO. JP. KE. KH. KI. KN. KR. KW. KY. KZ. LA. LB. LC. LI. LK. LS. LT. LU. LV. MA. MC. MD. MG. MIL. MK. ML. MN. MO. MR. MT. MU. MX. MY. MZ. NA. NATO. NC. NE. NET. NF. NG. NI. NL. NO. NP. NZ. OM. ORG. PA. PE. PF. PG. PH. PK. PL. PR. PT. PY. QA. RO. RU. SA. SB. SE. SG. SI. SK. SM. SN. SR. SU. SV. SY. SZ. TH. TN. TO. TR. TT. TV. TW. TZ. UA. UG. UK. US. UY. UZ. VA. VC. VE. VI. VN. VU. WS. YU. ZA. ZM. ZW. 2) Any frequently used TLD NS RRs will be cached. So *this* is not a problem. Daniel