[governance] new TLDs?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:55:01PM +0300,
 McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 68 lines which said:

> And also adding to the size of the rootzonefile.  which might be
> very very bad!

Good Lord, the root is an EXTREMELY small zone file. Any african ccTLD
has more domains than the root.

Any laptop PC with free software can handle a much larger zone file.
 
> 10000 more lines.  Zonefile has just increased to ~375KB.

Which is nothing. Absolutely nothing. Load it with BIND on your small
and old laptop PC and you will not see any slowdown.

> Bringing DNSSEC signatures into the mix increases this zonefile size
> by a factor of 4 to 13.

A very small thing multiplied by 4 to 13 is still very small.

> Now, admittedly these are back of a cocktail calculations, but that
> is a whopping big zonefile, no?

No (and I manage name servers for TLD, daily).



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