Re: NSI

[durrell@innocence.com (Bryant Durrell)]

Christopher Ambler writes:
> > Well, so this wold be my address :
> 
> > http://www.horus.web
> 
> No, it would be http://horus.web
> 
> http:// is mostly assumed these days as the default, but it still specifies the
> protocol. With .web, you need not use the www machine name. Our marketing
> indicates that .web is for web sites. Remove the www. portion entirely.

This doesn't actually solve any of the problems which plague the .com
domain; in particular, it doesn't reduce the namespace crunch in the
least.  It will require all the companies which have a serious Web
presence to register a new domain; nobody's going to want to be (say)
sun.com but sun-computer.web.

It's a great idea from a commercial standpoint.  I don't think it makes
much sense given the current IAHC thinking.  The user gains very little
from .WEB.

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