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What are TLDs Good For? (CircleID)

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Yesterday I said that the original motivations for adding new TLDs were to break VeriSign's monopoly on .COM, and to use domain names as directories [links: here and blog ]. Competitive registrars broke the monopoly more effectively than any new domains, and the new domains that tried to be directories have failed.

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