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Username: jestiny
Date/Time: Wed, June 21, 2000 at 5:45 PM GMT
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Subject: .TV NOT a ccTLD!

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Technical Knowledge is beclouding many people's thinking.  I invite you to go out on the street and ask 20 people what ccTLD means? If you are lucky, 1 will know.

The point is ccTLD is technical gobbledygook.  People simply want good names. It doesn't matter whether it is a GTLD, ccTLD, or thankyousirmayIhaveanotherTLD. 

In other words, .TV ,for all practical purposes, is a GTLD (generic Top level- domain). Not only is ICANN endangered, .COM is.  (Seriously) This will only accelerate the luster being taken off it as a TLD.

I am both a DNS admin and an Internet marketer.  It is easy to see how DNS admins think .TV stands for Tuvalu.  Well, it doesn't .TV stands for TV  . the thing many people will be looking at when they search the web.

.US is restrictive and non-global.  That's why it has failed.  .TV is regionally non-specific and implies media.  And it is SHORT. What more could one ask for?

The market is determining.
     

 


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