Greetings Kivuva, Very enlightening, thank you very much for this!! I get the drift very well now. That being the case, why would Google in this instance or any other Organisations who are players and known industry drivers want to front for the dotless if it "stifles" the industry. What I am hearing is the way pharmaceutical firms release one medication to treat a prevalent condition and in turn the new medicine creates five more ailments in the "healed" person, creating a cycle for drug dependency - managed only with medication from only the said firm. Why I say this is I presume and repeat presume as I have no guaranteed information - that in these Organisations that is where you find the Gurus who are even the Advisors to the ICANN-likes, governments and such institutions who are policy makers and drivers of the internet. Have a pleasant day. Regards/Wangari --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth". ________________________________ From: Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> To: WANGARI KABIRU <wangarikabiru@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: Kelvin Githira <kelvin@skysys.co.ke>; ISOC Kenya <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Tuesday, 20 August 2013, 15:12 Subject: Re: [ISOC_KE] Article: ICANN: No dotless domains for you, Google Hi Wangari, ICANN deliberated and decided that dotless domains would interfere with the stability of the internet. Here is a perfect example, http://localhost is a dotless domain. If hypothetically it was awarded to a registry, it would mean that our computers would be confused on who really is local host between the local root and the international root. Ok, that example if far fetched because localhost can never be delegated. Now to quantify my example, suppose the word "matrix" is given out as a dotless domain? How many servers in the world are named matrix? Thousands I suppose. So in the LAN and WAN setting, all traffic to http://matrix would go to the local server, and would never reach the delegated root server for http://matrix and this would destabilize the DNS system. Regards ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva twitter.com/lordmwesh google ID | Skype ID: lordmwesh