Re: Conflict resolution?

[Christopher Ambler <chris@iodesign.com>]

> Search engine behavior certainly seems plausible.  It's just common
> business and user sense.  If you don't know the domain for someone, you
> can make a good guess knowing there is only common domain.  It aids
> mnemonic reconstruction.  People's lives are confusing enough without
> having to deal with multiple domains.  Call it Egoshin's law if you will.
> Having multiple iTLDs is like having multiple phone books.   You might
> be able to tweak that tendency a little, but not much.  Certainly
> the plain facts suggest the existing scheme has been enormously popular:
> .com for companies, .org for non-profits, .net for misc.  c'est simple!

Oh please! What's the domain name for my company, Image Online Design, Inc?
image.com? No. imageonline.com? Not until a couple weeks ago when it was
finally returned by the previous owner for non-payment. imageonlinedesign.com?
Nope, too long for us. We settled, initially, for iodesign.com. How easy
is that to guess?

The .COM domain is just too full for this argument to work anymore. While more
iTLDs isn't the answer to this problem, it doesn't make it any worse than
it already is. Either way, better search engines are the answer.

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Christopher Ambler
President, Image Online Design, Inc.