----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Swerve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [TLDA-Members] Fwd: BulkRegister partners with New.Net
> > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > which of the myriad of namespaces ? New.net is only one of .... how many? > > > > New.net is the only one that could be taken serious (with their huge number > > of enabled browsers) > > I disagree. Mind you new.net is the best thing since sliced bread in my > opinion. But in the end they will serve a function but not profit from > it. Apart from the well know fact new.net is under financial burden I > think it's appropriate to recognize their efforts but in the end like any > dot.com it is doomed to failure. Well known fact is that New.net is profitable. "New.net Continues Growth, Diversifies Product Offerings And Reaches Profitability as Internet Naming Industry and ICANN Falter" http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=156973&TICK=NEWN&STO RY=/www/story/06-17-2002/0001748590&EDATE=Jun+17,+2002 > others look like internal organization which use what look like a > proprietary tld. based on the data there - i'm not sure but i suspect > somewhere out in the wild someone somewhere is testing out a UTF-8 > internationalised top level domain. http://www.k�se.com > But no where can you see the new.net tlds in the top ten on this list. and i > have no reason to doubt their 170 million user claim which give them at > least 20 - 30 % stake in the total internet user population. new.net > should be all over this page. There is some reasonable traffic. According to "Alexas most popular sites on the Web" New.net (including all its sub-domains like health.shop.new.net) holds position number 114. http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500?p=Dest500_W_t_40_M1&page=2 > i've always complained they have never effectively marketed thier tlds. Newspaper ads? TV ads? That would be old fashioned dot.com style (burn money) You may have a look how New.net sites get free traffic (and marketing) http://eps.new.search.new.net/apps/eps/results.cgi?dp_rp=6&Keywords=viagra&P artner=oingo_inclusion_xml_31&ac=s > > If Joe would have the money he could pay e.g. EarthLink to resolve his .God > > domain names. I don't know if Joe has > > such sums...New.net has it. > > I would never do that. We hold the rights - were happy with our progress > - and were confident we'll win and someday be available to all. Nobody can claim to have exclusive rights to a TLD. I could open a .God registry tomorrow, legally. good luck
