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Fri, October 19, 2001 at 1:35 AM GMT (Thu, October 18, 2001 at 5:35 PM PST) |
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That's "Ambler" :-) |
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C for Christopher, Ambler for Ambler = CAmbler The "majority" of generic names
have not been registered. There are slightly over 26,000 registrations, and quite
a few of them are compound names. Regardless, there are hundreds of thousands of
what you might consider "marketable" domains. But I don't consider the marketability
of a domain name above and beyond how well it relates to a web site. I don't speculate
in domain names. Those who do, do so on their own business. If IANA had not specifically
asked us to make the registry operational in 1996, we'd still have a registry with
0 names registered. On the other hand, had they not asked us to make it operational,
we would have never built it out, much less proven its abilities. In that case, I
think we would have never been able to make the case that we knew what we were doing,
and our pioneer status would be questionable, at best. It's that 5+ years of operational
status that prompted Dr. Cerf to state that he felt .Web should be reserved for us
in the next round.
| Christopher Ambler CTO, Image Online Design, Inc. The .Web Internet Domain Registry http://webtld.com
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