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Username: joshwa
Date/Time: Thu, June 15, 2000 at 7:47 PM GMT
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Subject: Yes, ".web" should certainly be among the new TLDs

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        Hi,

First of all, let's spell out a major part of the problem: the internet namespace just wasn't created to handle a world-wide web with a billion pages of content, or a stock market worth billions of dollars.

It's unfortunate that the creators of the namespace created generic TLDs. I don't know why this was done, but again, it couldn't have occured to them that the net would become what it is today. Things would have been better with just country-code TLDs. Now, everyone is accustomed to ".com", as companies like Amazon.com have spent a fortune branding themselves.

Ah well. I'd say roll out as many new TLDs as people want. Just a few to start, then maybe 10 every four months or so forever.

The more TLDs there are, the less demand there will be. So, cybersquatting will die out. ".com" will not be the only choice for marketeers forever; remember, just 5-6 years ago, no one had ever heard of ".com"

".web" should be among the first TLDs offered. It's the natural, intuitive choice. Plus, IODesign was led to believe that their efforts (and money) would lead to them being accreditted as a legitimate registrar. But they should not have exclusive rights to register ".web".


-joshua

   
     
     

 


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