It is not my idea, but really, should't we abolish the TLD in general? Instead of http://google.com, http://google.de, http://google.tv .... we would get just http://google .
The reason why we have geographical TLD is just political anyway.
(I like that we have both "restricted" and "unrestricted" zones; I can go register beiberloveskittens.com, for example, but know that beiberloveskittens.com.au won't go polluting the .com.au namespace without at least someone going to the effort of setting up a business for it to be attached to.)
But when I try all the possible TLD's as a separate addresses, none works ( http://com , http://org , even http://xxx or http://museum , nothing works).
What is the reason... is it DNS servers that don't like this type of nslookup?
Try ending with a period.
Certainly http://dk. works. I'm sure there are others.
I don't think we do. I think 1 global namespace would be enough.
Say we ditched TLD's and limited domain names to 10 alphanumeric characters. That would still be enough domains to give 450,000 to every person on the planet.
That's with just alphanumeric characters capped at a length of 10. Allow unicode and remove the cap and we would have plenty of domains to go around.
All in 1 namespace.
Edit: yes I understand that the vast majority of those domains would be nonsensical, however even eliminating 99.99999% of them would still leave enough meaningful domains to go around the world many times over.
I dont think you have thought this through who would rember that the local doctors surgery is XDFE123456!