let $185,000 bloom
"Let a thousand flowers bloom," Postel was keen on reciting, meaning that it was not the job of those running the internet's infrastructure to decide in which direction it should grow, only that it should grow unencumbered and in its own way.
Sadly, Postel died in October 1998 and the company that took over his role, ICANN, did not adhere to the same philosophy. It has taken ICANN 17 years to reach the point that Postel and many internet originators wanted to reach within one year. But we are finally there.
Yes, I'm sure Postel wanted to see ICANN grabbing hundreds of millions of dollars in this sudden organic growth of the Internet's infrastructure (totally not a TLD/domain extortion racket).