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Originally Posted by Kipi Thanx for info, but I think I stated my question badly... What I meant was that more like where do we need so many .***s? Maybe it was a bit out of the original idea, but I decided to throw that question also, it is after all very close to the whole subject.

I answered that as well - but I'll try to expand a little.
It speeds up travelling across the web, because you can increase the number of domain servers. If you have fewer domains, you must have more addresses within this domain. For instance -simplified - if there was no .gov or .org, but only .com - that would mean all .gov and .org urls would have to be included into the .com.
Thus the servers (there are more per domain naturally) which handles .com queries needs to have a bigger table to look up in, making them slower. They'd also be harder and slower to update due to more information, and thus more prone to synchronization errors and what not.

(I'm sure others can expand further, with me only being a software guy, I didn't pay all that much attention in tech.classes back in school )