On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, at 21:26 [=GMT-0800], Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > True. But when a TLD is created for a purpose, that purpose should be > excluded from .ORG. Hence, .NAME removes the need to put personal > domains in .ORG,
Wait, wait, wait. I have a personal (family) domain in .ORG and I want to keep it. I do not want to be in .NAME. Why? 1. I would have to tell everybody I have a new email address. This would cost me time, money and fuss. 2. A .NAME domain is way more expensive! 3. I want to run my own mailservers. .NAME _forces_ you to use theirs. Things might be different if there were several personal TLDs to pick from, say .NAME, .EGO, .PER, .IND, .FAM. I am sure one of them would come up with a more sensible thing than forcing people to use the TLDs mailservers. And the price would go down too. Another matter is who is going to police all this, and who is going to pay for the policemen and women. The registrants obviously. It is simply impossible to maintain standards of elegibility for domains. NetSol tried that, but had to give it up, remember? What went wrong with laissez-faire capitalism? Why can't we pick our own monikers? Why must some people force us into a taxonomy, which is always too rigid to do justice to life? I used to work in a library in my earlier life, classifying books by subject. Most did fit in more than category. Books cannot chose, people can. Why not let them? Or is that those who want to control the internet subconsciously feel that the only solid point where they might get some grip on all of us, is the only hierarchical structure of the internet, to wit the DNS? Stop it, it won't work and it is devious. -- [03] I thank you for your time and interest. http://logoff.org/
