Answers embedded below. Keith
>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 5:09 AM >To: Keith Teare >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Keith Teare >Subject: Re: RealNames >Hi Keith, >I think there is a market for Keywords now. The whole RealNames concept >sounds good on the first look: web navigation without "www" and "dots". >But� I also think the benefit of RealNames is not that big that the average >Internet user would use it. There is no big difference if someone has to type >in (www.)bmxx5.com or bmw x5. See my answers to George Kirikos on this point. Also worth saying that more than 1 million Keywords have already been sold - in 160 countries. Many of these are Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, etc. DNS doesn't do this well. >Moreover RealNames are too expensive therefore it won't go mainstream and >Internet users won't use it. Maybe it is something for trademark holders but >not for the average webmaster or a speculator (which are important in this >industry (ever sold a keyword on afternic?). >My conclusion: We think we would sell some RealNames keywords but >registrants wouldn't renew it because it won't pay for them. Glad you could sell them. On renewals, we are seeing about 60% renewal rates right now. >Btw. what's going on with xtns and which impact has New.nets Quick! on >RealNames? XTNS contract was terminated by RealNames. It turned out we could not support dot delimited Keywords following a technical change that Microsoft made to the browser. New.Net's plug-in has had more or less no effect. Even the Yahoo! Plug-in has had no effect and they are much bigger than new.net. Generally I think plugins don't work too well. It's what a company does when it has no other plan. We also used to have one pre 1999. Best Keith
