Re: International Registries

[Aveek Datta <MoNoLiTH+@CMU.EDU>]

Excerpts from newdom: 18-Nov-96 International Registries by
"ZZZZPICB"@brains.com 
>      Would .corp, and .biz generic upper level domains relieve the pressure 
>      much in the same way the introduction of 888 exchanges has expanded 
>      the number of available toll free phone numbers?  Or would it force 
>      trademark owners to register their names in even more domains?  Under 
>      a new system would coke need to register in 150 new worldwide generic 

 I know as part of the introduction of 888, 800 numbers which were
 vanity numbers (like 1-800-HOLIDAY) were automatically duplicated
 into 888. Since every name in DNS can be considered a vanity name..
 This poses quite a problem.

The bottom line is Microsoft's going to register in every TLD possible.
SO will lots of other medium to large size companies. Which means that
every TLD will be profitable as long as it has widespread net coverage,
simply because the big guys will not care about the $50 a piece a year
or so.

With this argument, given some time, I'm sure anyone with some registry
running experience, (which is not that tough) can get the financial
backing to start a new registry and make it at least somewhat profitable.

Oh to clarify -- I say running a registry is not that tough. I'm talking
about the new TLDs. Simply because they will for a while be miniscule
compared to .COM and even most country TLDs. This I believe was the
problem with the Internic -- they are good at running a registry, but
.COM is just too big for their current operation. They should have
invested more man power and time before starting to charge.

my opinions only, of course.
 
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