Hello Marc,
Monday, December 11, 2000, 10:46:31 AM, you wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, at 10:36 [=GMT-0800], William X. Walsh wrote:
>> Monday, December 11, 2000, 10:35:51 AM, you wrote:
>>
>> >> They are valid ccTLD domain names under
>> >> the IANA/ICANN policy recognizing 2 letter codes in the ISO 3166 list.
>>
>> > True. But not to the point. Which was: they are perceived as 'upstart'
>> > for a business or other serious website etc.
>>
>> What does this have to do with the legitimacy of the .biz TLD
>> discussion?
> My contribution to this discussion wasn't about that :-) All I said
> was that .BIZ would be perceived as an upstart TLD.
I don't agree with that. There has always been a disparity between
the ccTLDs and the gTLDs, such that even ccTLDs that imitated gTLDs
were seen as "second class" domains. I don't agree that this would be
the case with new gTLDs created in the ICANN process, especially in
light of the wide coverage of the decisions (I even saw coverage of
ICANN's decisions by CNN and Foxnews, and of course MSNBC, but they
have always covered "net" news more than the other 2 cable news
networks.
I don't think that the issues that plague the "open" ccTLDs will carry
over to the new gTLDs. The public has always understood the
difference to some degree.
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
