Re: Registration of Common Names

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Simon Higgs wrote:

> > Experience has shown that companies are quite happy to register 3LD's
> > since many ISO3166 domains have lots of 3LD registrations in SLD's like
> > co.uk, com.au, on.ca, asso.fr, and so on.

> Bzzzzzzzttttt... Wrong. Experience has shown that companies are forced
> to use 3LD's under ISO-3166 and they don't want to be 3LD's, so instead
> they pay InterNIC $100 for a .COM name. 600,000+ domain names can't be
> wrong...

No, you are wrong. In just the 4 SLD's that I mentioned there are
54,000 organizations registered. Given a choice a significant number of
organizations have opted to choose the 3LD. They just aren't as visible
because they aren't all concentrated in one place like .COM.

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