Re: Thread 5: Defining the namespace (was Re: Thread 1: Sharing)

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Alan,

  I like your approach here.  Though I am against sharing of all 
gTLDs, the ones you outline here would be good sharing canadates
I think.  

  Please read below for the rest of my comments.

Alan Sullivan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> If we intend to have shared registries - and assume we are going to have
> a central authority for dividing ip the name space - let's have at it.
> >From looking a Yahoo - where they do use the library science approach -
> the following categories emerge:
> 
>    * Arts and Humanities - .arts       * News and Media [Xtra!] - .news
>      Architecture, Photography,           Current Events, Magazines, TV,
>      Literature...                        Newspapers...
> 
>    * Business and Economy - .com        * Recreation and Sports - .rec
>      Companies, Investments,              Sports, Games, Travel, Autos,
>      Classifieds...                       Outdoors...
> 
>    * Computers and Internet - .net      * Reference - .ref
>      Internet, WWW, Software,             Libraries, Dictionaries, Phone
>      Multimedia...                        Numbers...
> 
>    * Education   - .edu                 * Regional - .geo
>      Universities, K-12, College          Countries, Regions, U.S.
>      Entrance...                          States...
> 
>    * Entertainment - .ent               * Science - .sci
>      Cool Links, Movies, Music,           CS, Biology, Astronomy,
>      Humor...                             Engineering...
> 
>    * Government  - .law                 * Social Science - .soc
>      Military, Politics [Xtra!],          Anthropology, Sociology,
>      Law...                               Economics...
> 
>    * Health [Xtra!]  - .med             * Society and Culture - .cult
>      Medicine, Drugs, Diseases,           People,Environment,Religion...
>      Fitness...
> 
> Some observations - .geo could be used as a gTLD to register nTLDs
> .us.geo, .fr.geo, .ca.geo, .de.geo .....
> Interesting - but precedence would probably not move us in this
> direction. Instead we would probably remove .geo as a gTLD category
> and have it covered by nTLDs.
> We probably want to add .org in here for historical reasons.
> There are a lot of organizations that over time would probably find
> homes in different gTLDs.
> This gives us 14 gTLDs with the following being new:
> .arts
> .news
> .rec
> .ref
> .edu
> .ent
> .sci
> .law
> .soc
> .med
> .cult
> BTW - I think the public gets the wrong message when movies are
> advertised with www.movie-name.com - Let's find a good home for these
> like movie-name.ent or maybe even a new category like movie-name.movie
> Thoughts?

  I like .mov for movies as a shared gTLD.  I have an intrest in this
one
I must admit, in that I may be setting up a Domain for a customer in
this
catagory.  Any thoughts on this suggestion?

> Thanks,
> Alan
> --
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> 1550 Rush-Scottsville Rd.
> Rush, NY 14543
> Phone: 716 533-2387 FAX: 716 533-1410

Regards,

-- 
Jeffrey A. Williams
DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java Development Eng.
Information Eng. Group. 
Phone :972-447-1878
E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com