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You shouldn't discount his point so easily.

The TLDs have long lost all their meaning anyways, so dropping them would be a great idea.

Of course it's not gonna happen (too much money to be made by inventing yet another suffix), but technically the root-servers could start resolving all .com's without the suffix tomorrow, except for those that clash with an existing TLD.




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