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The title pretty much says it all.

What effects would a gtld registration of .onion domain have on the Tor network, is this something to worry about? Or is it something to welcome and slap a web2tor proxy under its entire namespace?

Is it going to impact the security by the percieved notion to the general public that using a regular browser to visit someobscurehash.onion provides you with anonymity and protection? Or that the website you're hosting under your freshly registered domain name (or hash -- are we really silly enough to register a domain name like that) is safe from evil governments and corporations (provided whoever registers this tld would allow registration of its subdomain)?

Thoughts anyone?

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(not a full answer, but relevant)

ICANN published the study Name Collision in the DNS (PDF, 3.3 MB):

A study of the likelihood and potential consequences of collision between new public gTLD labels and existing private uses of the same strings

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