Functional SLDs (was Re: Registration of Common Names)

[werner@axone.ch (Werner Staub)]

Michael, 

A company that knows about the Internet will register 
under .com in order to avoid .co.uk and the like. Moreover, 
the .com is automatically added by Netscape and other browsers.

The basis for the 54,000 3LDs you mentioned is coercion by the
TLD registry and and companies' ignorance. 

Dont forget that the .com namespace is big enough. I never had 
a problem registering French companies under .com because 
because few French names are used under .com.


Werner


> > > 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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