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

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

Bryan,

Infobahn Consulting wrote:
> 
> 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.

  This is a very good suggestion.  It has been made befor however and
rejected oru of hand from the gTLD-MoU folks.  Go figure.  
> 
> 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.

  Yep.  In fact it has spured some buisnesses that specilize in doing
just that.  I am sure you have seen the banner ad's and junk E-Mails
for just such a service.  
> 
> Bryan Trussler
> (bryan@i-bahn.com)
> 
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Regards,
-- 
Jeffrey A. Williams
DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java Development Eng.
Information Eng. Group. IEG. INC. 
Phone :913-294-2375 (v-office)
E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com