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		ForHackernews on May 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Loses Bid For .Amazon Domain If you allow arbitrary TLDs, you have to have some reasonable rules governing registration of secondary and maybe tertiary subdomains. Otherwise, the namespace will be saturated and the prices for new domains will be obscene.

sumeno on May 21, 2014 [–]

How is this remotely more of a concern than .com saturation that already exists?

ForHackernews on May 22, 2014 | [–]

Uh, it's not--yet.

The state of .com today is the future of other TLDs in the future.

That problem will be made much worse much sooner if the owners of TLDs like .shop or .phone aren't required to allow second-level registration.

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