Re: Jeff Williams' anti-Warehousing idea (Re: Warehousing, TM violations & the new gTLD's)

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On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, andi payn wrote:

> Well, if you require certain information to be placed on the web by all SLD
> holders, presumably you want to make it as easy to find as possible, so
> you'd require that it be at some specific place. The suggestions I can think
> of are: "front page" for the SLD, "www" 3LD, a special 3LD, or some obvious
> link on one of the above that takes you directly to the information.
> 
> For example, if my SLD were, say, payn.org, would you require me to put
> contact information directly at "http://payn.org" or "http://www.payn.org"
> or some special address like "http://info.payn.org" or
> "http://contact.payn.org," or could I have it be one link away from those
> places, or could it be anywhere that's reasonably easy to find?
> 
> I noticed that a few of the proposals for expanding the gTLD space required
> an "info" SLD under each, and a web page for each reachable at both
> "www.info.TLD" and "info.TLD" with certain specified information; I think
> that what you're proposing is basically the same thing for SLDs, but I
> wanted to make sure.

Back to my suggestion of about a month ago. We need a *.dom TLD to be
issued to all ISO and gTLD registrars (or registry federations, in the
case of the UK). Most people don't know what a "NIC" is or why they should
go to internic.net, apnic.net or ripe.net or whatever. If I want to find
domains in Argentina, then www.ar.dom should get me there. Or www.ro.dom
for Romania. Or www.ca.dom for Canada. Or www.au.dom for Australia. Or
www.us.dom for the United States or www.mn.us.dom for Minnesota in the USA
or whatever. Not to mention www.com.dom, www.net.dom, www.org.dom and so
forth. These sites could be operated jointly by multiple registrars of new
gTLDs and the ISO TLDs. They should maintain a linked list of *all* the
registrars operating within that registry.

Among other things, they might maintain a topical directory of domains
within that TLD. You know how, when you register the domain at NSI, it
asks you for a brief paragraph outlining the purpose of that domain? Well,
that's as good as a site description on Yahoo. The database could be
searchable on that field. Maybe the *.dom sites are even organised like
little Yahoos, grouping the domains by purpose and subject and topic. I've
always thought it a shame that Yahoo has emerged as the only viable global
topical index. But Yahoo is also getting very hard to deal with in terms
of getting sites registered there.

Bryan Trussler
(bryan@i-bahn.com)

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