Re: Good Monopolies/Bad Monopolies

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

Hi,

Again flawed logic. How does anything get found now on the Internet? Yahoo,
etc.
i.e. you search for keywords. DNS will not have all the keyword that I pump
into altavista everyday.

Yahoo etc does not care what you final dns string is. Are you suggesting
that there will some unspecified search procedure based upon DNS and gTLD
categories?

Or are we expected to do " whois "gTLD" | grep "name I want" ? If I want a
Lesbian Socalist Female Divorce Lawyer, the dns string .LAW or .DIVORECE
matters not. What matters is how they market their Web Site etc, and how I
search for that Web site.

TLDs are somewhat of a convienince. I am .ie but we do not really do any
business in Ireland. Sure I get people saying huh? .ie? But what the hell,
it works anyway.

The important reason for more TLDs is to break the NSI monopoly. Even if
there were just three registries, there is no longer a monopoly. Shared or
otherwise.

So give us another reason against multiple monopolies?

Kevin
who finally came out of the closet, I do not think shared will work all the
time!



At 4:20 +0300 31/12/96, Thom Stark wrote:
>Leo Smith maintains:
>
>> Suppose that .law, .atty, .legal, and .divorce could each be a gTLD. If
>> IAHC grants an EXCLUSIVE license to MY registry for ONLY .law, and grants
>> another exclusive license to YOUR registry for .legal, and grants another
>> exclusive license to JOE'S registry for .atty, then those Internet users
>> interested in a law related gTLD will find as much competition among the
>> three registries as we find among WENDY's MacDONALD's and BURGER KING.
>
>The problem with this model is that it doesn't serve the interests of the
>*user* community very well..and thus fails to serve the interests of the
>*registrant* community well.  As far as I can see, what the *user*
>community wants (granting that no one..including the IAHC..has surveyed
>the user community to actually determine in some methodologically-
>defensible way what it wants) is to be able to find things quickly and
>in an intuitive way.  One thing which would help that effort enormously
>is to have one and ONLY one gTLD name for each broad category of business.
>
>In other words, if the .LAW domain is the only one of its type, "I" can
>reasonably expect to find the law firm, (transcription service, arbitration
>firm, etc.) which "I" seek somewhere in that domain.  Substitute "casual
>Internet user" for "I", and I think you'll see my point.
>
>> This is an example of multiple monopolies competing for marketshare the
>> same marketplace. If it works well in fostering competition among the fast
>> food monopolies, what rationale underlies the fear that it somehow won't
>> work with registries and gTLDs?
>
>Domain names are not fast food joints.  It's an invalid analogy.
>
>Regards,
>
>Thom Stark
>
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