At 6:19 PM 1998/05/17, Mark Hughes wrote:
>Having more SLDs will make clear to the Trademark owners that in the DNS,
>just as in real life, they cannot stop others using a name.  As long as
>there are
>only a couple of gTLDs, .au SLDs etc, the Trademark holders will try and get
>full control over names in the DNS.  Creating more gTLDs and .au SLDs will
>be a long overdue cold shower for the Trademark owners.

Agree completely. The hassle is about ownership of names. Create a
potentially huge number of SLds and the value of a name in either one of
them will face AND tyhe heat in the present argument.