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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

On 12/03/2016 08:14 PM, Jonah Aragon wrote:
> I'd like to add I don't support numbers in TLDs for usability reasons. 
> I don't think they would fall in popular use, especially when similar 
> letter-only domains exist as an alternative (.free vs .fr33). That's 
> just my opinion though, I wouldn't use it but perhaps others don't 
> think the same.
Lack of popular use is exactly the reason why I mentioned fr33 as an 
alternative.  It's still easy to remember, but almost certainly would 
NOT be picked up by ICANN for general use, so there is little chance we 
will be having this same conversation about the same TLD again in a few 
years.

At one point I thought it would be nice if we prefixed all of our TLDs 
some way to show they were from an alternate root, and greatly minimize 
the chance of future conflicts.  I had wanted to use a hyphen (for 
example, .-free), but since the RFC specifically prohibits this, there's 
too much chance of it breaking something. We could still consider a 
numeric prefix such as .0free.  The idea is to try an *prevent* future 
conflicts, using something that is distinctive but easy to remember, 
because as much as we love our project, most of the world will never 
hear of us and conflicts will most certainly always resolve against us.