On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Skeeve Stevens wrote:

> How complex does this really have to be?
> 
> Is Australia going to go stupid and register other domains like .web.au
> .shop.au .music.au .tourism.au .church.au .club.au tm.au ? They simply
> are not needed and only dilute the usefulness of the web for finding
> information.

Skeeve,

Apart from the additional (IMO, negligible) load on DNS servers; more
varied domain names will make absolutely no different to the relative
difficulty of finding resources using the appropriate search engines.

More *resources* requiring indexing will slow searching down; but this
will happen regardless of whether the new resources are placed under new
domain names or existing ones.

It is the *content* that counts; not the domain name that it is
distributed from.

Regards,

Saliya