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Re: Conflict resolution?

Christopher Ambler put this into my mailbox:
> 
> > 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.
> 
>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?
[...]
>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.

I have to put my agreement in here. One of my jobs is to be a roving
helpstaff person in the computer labs at UCSD. Whenever someone asks me
what the web page for a company is, I point them at the InterNIC whois
page. It works.

As long as there's a central registry where people can type in the 'real'
name of a company, they can find their URL there.

-dalvenjah

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