I love the idea of city TLD.
it's nice to have domains like
sightseeing.paris
or theme TLDs like
amazon.shop
this is what we already have for .xxx
but giving one company the power over TLD like .book or .author is a big problem for me...
But which Paris? Paris, France? Paris, Texas? Paris Hilton? There are a lot of things named Paris. Who gets to decide? Few cities have unique names, so it's better to be specific. There's already a http://www.paris.fr, and US states have subdomains assigned under .us (and often regional subdomains under those)
Agreed. General concept is great but selling these TLDs to the highest bidder, idiotic. I can't believe this even got past the 'drawing board'. This needs to be protested in the same way GoDaddy was.