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Username: fnord

Date/Time: Sun, July 9, 2000 at 2:09 PM GMT

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Subject: not exactly

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I think we need .reg restricted domains for TM holders that also specify a class. How this is done specifically, class.reg or reg.class or class alone like .airline but with the presumption that any such class is restricted to .reg holders (this shouldn't be too hard for the public to grasp). In addition to those could be restricted TLDs like .union .church .kids and .fame (for Corinthians soccer team, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Don Henley et al, names that are putatively famous).
Those domains could be seen as approximately equivalent to the yellow pages (in function if not in structure). Why are there yellow pages at all? We have yellow and white pages (and government and etc.) because they are different classes of names and could be confused if they're all just on white pages. If this is done then I think new open domains have a chance to succeed, without it I think they have much less chance and will just increase existing problems.

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