Re: Registration of Common Names

[calvin@inlaw.improtech.co.za (Calvin Browne)]

> 
> At 2:57 PM -0800 12/26/96, Michael Dillon 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...
> Regards,
> Simon

Hmmmm ... I find that in South Africa, the reason people might shy away
from .co.za is when they want to appear 'international'. .com does this
for them.

Also, the fact that their registration is usually (assuming their
technical details are correct) processed in minutes, and the lower
once-off charge (R200-00 or about $40 at current exchange rates)
seems to do the trick.

--Calvin

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