[dns-wg] Elimination of 2nd level ccTLD domain names

>Other countries in Europe already do this, at least including Belgium, 
>Netherlands, France, and Germany.

Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Portugal, etc. They all followed the
example that I set with .nl in 1986. Some now work with a mixture
of 2nd and 3rd level domains.

>Nevertheless, given the size of the population of the expanded EU, I
>don't see how this kind of scheme will scale well to handle potentially 
>hundreds of millions of people.

I don't think there's any need for that. What would private persons
gain by registering <myname>.eu instead of <myname>.<ccTLD>? Adding
something .co.eu (which the EU policy already rules out) or .com.eu
wouldn't really alleviate the perceived problem.

>I don't think you necessarily need to go to a US-style city.county.state.us
>mechanism

That's counterproductive: moving from one city to another, which is
quite common for private persons, would imply a new domain name...

>but I think a three-level domain scheme would definitely be advisable.

It might be worth considering, but advisable? Not in my view.


         Piet