Re: Functional SLDs (was Re: Registration of Common Names)

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

Hank,

I disagree. .com is not big enough. I just had to register a company called
ascon. ascon.com was gone, so I registered eta-ascon.com. But wait a
minute, you say why didn't you register ascon.co.ae? Ask Perry, because
according to Perry in the US of A, the ISO TLDs are a beautiful perfect
place.....

No we should not collapse the DNS into .com, we should try to find a way to
fix the entire DNS namespace so that we all have a single policy to get
into a single "."

No no, says Perry, you guys in ISO TLDs, get to the back of the bus, you
have a different policy than us......? Huh? Have I seen attitudes like this
before? Let me see......


Kevin
French people in .com? Next you will have a MacDonalds on the Champs Elysee

At 20:10 +0300 28/12/96, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Werner Staub wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>It also adds www at the beginning so you can type just microsoft and
>it will try to go to www.microsoft.com.  Does that mean we should just
>collapse the entire namespace to .COM and forget everything else?
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>I would find many who disagree.
>
>>
>>
>> Werner
>
>Hank Nussbacher
>IAHC member
>[the views expressed above belong to the author and do not
>necessarily reflect the views of the other IAHC members]


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