Re: Conflict resolution?

[Tony Rutkowski <tony@netmagic.com>]

Gert,

>The way to resolve this is to make .com insignificant or to create
>many better alternatives.  Then companies abroad have alternatives
>to the overpopulated .com domain.

The difficulty here is that most businesses and the general public
seem to have already expressed a strong preference for a single 
iTLD for very understandable reasons - it's simple - although this
may offend our sensibilities about the way things should be.
There already are other iTLD alternatives - they are just not
regarded by a lot of customers as worthy of pursuit.

Rather like MacDonalds, there have been hundreds of thousands 
of .COMs served with almost trivially small numbers of complaints.  
Most businesses have simply worked around previously registered 
domains with some slight variant, and been quite pleased.  The
disputes that remain are nothing more than legal and public policy
questions - that do deserve attention by the responsible communities.

Has anyone thought to ask in any kind of quantitative way what
the reaction of businesses and public are to the proliferation of
additional iTLDs versus keeping things simple?  Isn't this a
significant public interest consideration?


cheers,
--Tony