Re: Thread 2: 60-day issue

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 7:35 PM +0000 12/27/96, Daniel Kaplan wrote:

> >here's the problem -
> >
> >  Joe's Grocery owns (for example) buyfoodonline.com, which they have
> >had for over a year now. They do good business selling groceries to
> >neighbourhood clients online and having them delivered. They have a
> >chain of grocery stores up and down the state which gives them a
> >very good area of coverage.
> >
> >  Jane's Grocery sees this and realizes that because of a great idea
> >that Jane had last night, she could do it much much better. She
> >applies for betterfoodonline.biz, but is told that she cannot use
> >it for 60 days. Jane now has a 60-day wait before she can compete,
> >through no fault of her own. She will immediately question the
> >registrar as to why they are placing this restraint on her trade.
> >Jane has no existing domain from which to add a 3LD, so that
> >avenue is not open. Jane knows that a random domain is not only
> >hard to remember, but will be changed in 60-days anyway, giving her
> >no options.
>
> I'm puzzled by this argument. You mean, Jane takes less than 60 days in
> designing her web site, putting her catalog online, devising the
> necessary arrangements to process orders and payments online, prepare her
> advertising campaign?.. I'd like to meet this Jane.
>

We've done this in under two weeks for one publisher (10,000+ pages of
magazine archives), and three weeks for a fortune 1000 company (1000+
pages plus ODBC to database). It wasn't that hard in 1994/95 when you
only needed to worry about graphics, HTML & DNS and they all paid real
money. Now frames, shockwave and java have placed an unhealthy
exponential curve on the development process and every AOLuser with an
HTML-in-a-week book will bid on a web site for college credits.

> >  If Joe's Grocery finds out about this, and they very well might since
> >they watch the 60-day publication, they have 60-days to mount a
> >defence to competition. Now Jane is angry with the registrar for
> >unknowingly aiding her competition.
>
> Now, this sounds more serious. Anyone has an answer?
>

Scrap the 60 day wait.

Regards,

Simon

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