Re: Where are we going?

[Christopher Ambler <chris@iodesign.com>]

> But it's not clear to me that creating just .biz or
> creating a 100 or even 10000 TLDs is actually going to solve this problem
> if most people just continue to use .com.

It is my position that people will not just continue to use .com. We have
a definate marketing plan for .web, and fully intend to see .web take a
market position rivaling .com. We're ready to let the market decide.

> And exactly why is it that all these new services have to be top level
> domains instead of under .alt (or .x if you want it shorter) or (except
> for the NSI problem) under .alt.com?

Because the perception is that additional levels of domains is bad. Whether
this is right or wrong, the market wants x.y instead of x.y.z. Since there
are such a large number of x.y addresses, that's the direction this has
to take. To take all x.y addresses and make them x.y.z is one solution,
but *YOU* tell microsoft.com that they now have to be microsoft.*.com
to level the playing field.


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Christopher Ambler
President, Image Online Design, Inc.