I understand your arguement, but it seems to me a separate problem independent of what I proposed.
As an evidence, the problem your describe already exists under the current amount a 1000+ TLDs. It won't be a new problem arising from my proposal.
Since it's a separate problem, there should be a separate discussion on how to solve it.
- Should we "cancel" TLDs altogether and just allow entities to register arbitrary sentences as names (why not?)?
- Should Internet companies be called apple.com instead of apple? (the problem is less harmful for non-internet business, right?).
- Should we remove only similarly-sound TLDs (com vs cons)?
- Should we tolerate that apple.com belongs to Apple while apple.con belong to different legal entities, in the same name that two companies in different countries can have the same name?
I could go on and on with possible solutions, though my point was only to demonstrate it's a separate problem.
As an evidence, the problem your describe already exists under the current amount a 1000+ TLDs. It won't be a new problem arising from my proposal.
Since it's a separate problem, there should be a separate discussion on how to solve it.
- Should we "cancel" TLDs altogether and just allow entities to register arbitrary sentences as names (why not?)?
- Should Internet companies be called apple.com instead of apple? (the problem is less harmful for non-internet business, right?).
- Should we remove only similarly-sound TLDs (com vs cons)?
- Should we tolerate that apple.com belongs to Apple while apple.con belong to different legal entities, in the same name that two companies in different countries can have the same name?
I could go on and on with possible solutions, though my point was only to demonstrate it's a separate problem.