[registrars] Regarding rules that don't work going forward

[Bruce Tonkin]

Hello John,

> >The upshot is "info.com good, com.info bad.  Museum.com good, 
> >com.museum bad.  Etc.".
> 
> 
> And, perhaps having assumed it would be obvious, but maybe not...
> 
> This rule, while pleasing to someone's sense of power, is 
> utterly stupid as applied to a system where all future TLD's 
> are unknown, since any future (and presently unknown) TLD 
> string is registrable at any time in any pre-existing TLD.  
> So, over time, the rule itself does not prevent the harm 
> sought to be prevented.
> 

Yes we experienced this in Australia.  We had a rule that you couldn't
register place names in .com.au.  Of course new places were named over
time, and thus you ended up with a situation that some place names
seemed to be registered in .com.au and some were not.

Regards,
Bruce