Re: 60 day waiting period

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Carl Oppedahl allegedly said:
> 
> At 06:52 PM 01/12/97 -0700, Terry O'Neill wrote:
> >
> >As a web presence provider, my company is adamantly opposed to a 60 day
> >waiting period for domain names. 
> >
> >The 60 day policy means that the minimum implementation time for a website
> >with an xxxx.yyy domain name is 60 days, strictly because of the 60 day
> >policy, regardless of our capability to complete all other phases of
> >development much more quickly.
> 
> [other arguments omitted]
> 
> Why fixate on the first 60 days of the life of a domain name?  Why not
> think instead of the subsequent five years?  

Because the first 60 days are very important to the survival of an
enterprise.  During that period of time the uncertainties are
greatest, and the possibility of failure is greatest.  During the
first 60 days patterns are set that will have a far greater impact on
the survival of the enterprise than the remote possibility of
trademark collision 5 years later.  9 out of 10 small businesses fail
within the first year.  The flat out fact, as anyone who has worked
with startups of any kind knows, what happens in the first 60 days are
vital.  

> With the 60-day period in
> place, a domain name that survives the 60-day period is much more likely to
> survive the subsequent five years.

Let's see, we will institute the policy of depriving babies of oxygen 
for 5 minutes, because studies show that even though 50% die as a 
result of this treatment, the babies that survive live a little 
longer on the average.

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Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
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