borntobeweb - 9:11 pm on May 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to these new tlds and many overlap each other. What's the difference between a "business" (.biz) and a "commercial entity" (.com)? Why is there a .travel and not a .hairsalon or .restaurant? or .aero and not .auto or .boat? And what is .tel all about?

The .tel domain is reserved for businesses and individuals to publish their contact data and is sponsored by Telnic Ltd.

Isn't that what the Contact Us page is for? Am I expected to register an entire new domain just to put my contact info up? And will the data be presented in a standard way to make it easier for spammers?

"This is all about choice," ICANN Chief Executive Paul Twomey said in a statement. "We want the diversity of the world's people, geography and business to be able to be represented in the domain name system."

The domain name system as it stands is a straight mapping of the hierarchical architecture of the internet and only makes sense to computer people. The average user doesn't care about hierarchies (think about how many users put all their documents on the Desktop). We don't need more random TLDs, we need a more user friendly system.