The New Internets (2014–Present)

Abstract

Louis is not particularly interested in money, even though he recognizes its usefulness—who wants to be poor? He hates the verbiage of communicators, trendy words and false issues such as net neutrality. He has only one goal: to make progress. At conferences he sees many prestigious brand companies and OIVs (Operators of Vital Importance) running their business on an unsecured internet and he tries to explain to them how having their own TLD could help parry the defects of TCP/IP, allowed them to continue to operate when the ICANN root is down or their company is the victim of a ransomware attack. In such cases, private communication within an organization through a global intranet would be an obvious competitive advantage. Useful as that is however, the main reason for an open root is that one is no longer bogged down in domain name portfolio issues: owning your TLD means that you can create as many second-level domain names as needed, freely.