New top-level domains coming

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

On 10/15/2009 09:04 AM, Bill Horne wrote:
> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has
> announced more progress toward the issuance of Generic Top-Level Domain
> name (gTLD) domains. These new top-level domains will give applicants
> the chance to have a corporate trademark or community name as the _last_
> item in an Internet address: for example, instead of sears.com or
> fsf.org, the new gTLD program would allow addresses such as sales.sears
> or emacs.fsf.
> 
> Details are at
> http://www.icann.com/en/announcements/announcement-04oct09-en.htm .

Won't that just increase load on the root nameservers?  Are they planning some
expansion of the root servers to accommodate more load?

At some point ICANN's game of getting businesses to double up on domain names
(e.g. sears will have to keep their old .com) will get old...won't it?

Matt