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dnheller |
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Wed, June 6, 2001 at 3:09 PM GMT |
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Questionable need for new TLDs |
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I suspect there is no need for new TLDs (.biz, .sex, etc.). The dot-com collapse
has greatly reduced the total demand for domain names. The only people to benefit
from new domain names would be registrars collecting registration fees. If new
TLDs are authorized, then existing trademark holders are forced, by trademark law,
to pay to register trademarked names in new TLDs (ibm.biz, amazon.biz, etc.) in order
to protect their trademarked names, even though the new domain names will add no
value. Sure, IBM and Amazon can easily affort $35/year to register, but there is
no business benefit, and it only confuses things. Would we look at books.com,
books.biz, books.sex, sex.com, or sex.biz or sex.sex for books about sex? Just
look at the mess in newsgroup name hierarchies. The only new TLD that I could favor
is ".nom" or ".per" to be used ONLY for personal email addresses and domains shared
by indivudals (e.g. www.david.heller.per and david@heller.per).
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- Questionable need for new TLDs — dnheller, June 6, 2001 @ 3:09 PM (2/12)
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