Scary? I think it just shows how good the internet is at routing around inefficiencies. The idea of a domain name "shortage" was artificial and hardly benefited anyone but the registrars.<p>To pick an arbitrary example: "gcc.com" belongs to a cement company and "gcc.org" to a church, yet apart from typing them in directly a minute ago I've never seen those sites, since Google/Yahoo/Bing all direct you somewhere useful like <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/" rel="nofollow">http://gcc.gnu.org/</a> instead. Thank goodness!