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Re: Responses to Responses

Excerpts from internet.listserv.iahc-discuss: 12-Dec-96 Re: Responses to
Responses by Michael Dillon@memra.com 
> But that's not what domain names do. If you see an ad that tells you to
> phone 555-1212 and ask for Fred then that ad identifies a person and gives
> you a way to reach that person. "555-1212" does not identify a person and
> "Fred" does not identify a person. The ad is what does the identifying
> job, the number and name are merely addressing items that you can give to
> a person or system in order to get from point A to point B. I would
> further argue that a URL is no more of an identifier than a domain name
> is. 

I agree; a domain name is what you make of it. I think what happened is bad
precedent. The .US domain was so twisted and mangled that no company or any
person who wanted a domain name because it was at least somewhat memorable
wanted to be in it. Even if its was NAME.STATE.US it wouldn't be so bad, but
when we get to NAME.CITY.STATE.US it's getting as hard to remember as a
mailing address and the IP number. That's why people in the US started
registering in .COM and other iTLDs. And because we started getting the
short names, companies in other nations didn't want to be left out -- and
since these WERE iTLDs, they didn't have to be. Of course, there are other
reasons, like the Internic, despite some of our ranting, is cheaper and has
better service than many other NICs around the world. 

I would like to see the subdomains .COM.US, .ORG.US, etc, delegated. Maybe
at this point with the precedent involved it would make no difference, but
it couldn't hurt.

Just my .02

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