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On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, Jonah Aragon wrote:

> I am definitely opposed to people just coming out of the blue 
> and thinking they can just get a TLD however, because it 
> actually requires some effort and long-term planning

This has been my thinking for some time: many of the TLDs that 
have been proposed of late seem to me to have an air of being a 
passing fancy on the part of the proposer.  I call such 
proposals "Rooney-Garland" ideas: raised by enthusiastic and 
well-meaning people who haven't fully considered just how much 
work and effort will be required to see it through.

  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeyLetsPutOnAShow

I'd be happy to see hundreds of new TLDs but only if they can

On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, Jonah Aragon wrote:

> TLDs are supposed to last forever

This is a very important point.  I'd be happy to see hundreds of 
new TLDs but only if they are sure to survive.  Longevity and 
stability is important for all TLDs, of course.  Being NFP and 
cooperative the OpenNIC needs to be very wary of fatigue or 
failure of anyone who commits to operating a Tier 1 or 2 server. 
Having to change the root zone or its data too frequently or 
having reduced redundancy does not work in OpenNIC's favour.

For example, I own and operate public Tier 3 DNS servers on four 
continents for my own non-critical ICANN domains and though I 
could offer them for OpenNIC service I don't because I'm under 
no illusion of being able to do so indefinitely.  If my DNS 
servers go offline for any reason I'm only willing for that to 
affect my own domains.

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ChrisG