> It would imply to me that the .com name was taken. Hi Roger,
I agree. e.g.'s Art.com Art.Net Art.info If the entity or person or content behind Art.Net or Art.info was interesting, then over time, Art.Net or Art.info would become a destination i would consider going to more than .com. In fact, i view .Net domains as "seriously" as i do .com's. I think .Net is cooler than .com. Of course, not everyone is into the cool factor. Swerve http://Swerve.Net > From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:38:51 -0800 > Subject: Re: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update [.com/.net & .name] - 13/02/03 > > elliot noss wrote: > >> You are right wrt .es or .fr, but you are not with respect to .uk and >> .de. .ca is interesting because Canadians overwhelmingly used .com >> until registration was liberalized and since then it has shifted >> significantly (it was 90% .com and 10% .ca and is now probably >> somewhere at 30-50% .ca (Paul, CIRA should do a study)). The Chinese >> and Japanese governments recently liberalized registration in .cn and >> .jp with this goal explicitly stated. Some smart ccTLDs are very real, >> very competitive namespaces in some national markets. Others are >> irrelevant and it typically is almost completely a function of how >> liberal registration policies are. > > You hit the key, though -- in NATIONAL markets. > > Businesses who want to focus on their national markets are more likely > to get a national domain. > > I don't deal with very many companies like that. > >> The new gTLDs are another story. I have ragged on both Afilias and >> Neulevel repeatedly to focus ALL of their marketing efforts on >> programs that incent usage. Imagine if you regularly received email >> from someone using a .info name. Think of how subtle and powerful that >> impact would be. > > It would imply to me that the .com name was taken. > >
