I appreciate the way Mercantile manages the .np domains. I think it is not good to blame Mercantile upon not getting a specific domain name.
It is clearly stated in the terms and conditions : "Domains are provided on first come first serve basis". It is good that they are not taking any fee and they are managing it very well. The same is the case for commercial top level domains. .COM .NET. .ORG. The domain registrar does the same(first come first serve basis). Even the man in pizza.com got what he deserved. He bought pizza.com in 1994, when the dot com business had just started.Now he is selling the domain in 2008. He managed to maintain the site for all these years. Even the top level domains suffer from these cases, we should not blame Mercantile who is managing the domain for free. We should be thankful that mercantile registers .np for free whenever we like to register. Mercantile does all these hastle free things for free, right from the begining of .np in nepal. They managed to introduce .np in Nepal. This is a good thing and we should learn to appreciate that. Domain names are stolen, bid, sold, and many things happen. All the problems above occured for the top level domains. We can say that those registrars are highly paid and more commercial than Mercantile, yet they suffered these problems. Mercantile is just a free .np registrar. How could MOS solve all the problems inherited with "Domain". There are many VDCs and many schools, many Not for profit organizations. Domains are for all of them. Many are benefitting from this service, including individuals. Keeping a charge might hamper all of them. Since web services are expanding exponentially, We are getting exactly what we have expected. *In the near future, there will be no or very less desktop applications, rather most of them will be replaced by web applications. For instance Word, spreadsheet, presentation documents are being replaced in many places by easily accessible web apps like Google docs. * Research, Development, and management of desktop apps cost more than web applications. Desktop applications are not accessible as easily as web applications. So lets not think of putting barriers on web appliactions, rather try to be liberal. +1 to Hempal dai, "let it reach to mass, lets make the service better rather than creating more obstacles." On 6/28/08, jaHsaaymi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think a small fee for .com.np (and free or .edu.np) could be levied > and the money used for a trust (hopefully FOSS Nepal ;), or some fund > that buys computers for people in villages. > > And I think Mercantile should be thanked for providing their man-power > for free to administer the domains. I think they should continue to > provide the service for free and highlight their costs as donation and > possibly double the donation to the foundation.... > > About domain reservation, .np does not seem to be a big market to make > money out of it. This sort of domain trading does occur from time to > time, consider the case of pizza.com > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7331042.stm > > ----------- > > I think entrepreneurship should be encouraged and if somebody is > willing to take the risk and get hold of some domains if they can make > a profit later, let them... > > > http://www3.cnn.com/2007/TECH/biztech/07/23/domain.name.dealing.ap/index.html > > > If you say that you can not trade domain names then why would you let > people buy land and then expect to make a profit selling then later, > or for that matter buy IT companies, or bank shares or whatever... > > ----------- > > Fortunately there are laws now that prevent this kind of thing from > happening where people hijack your company name. I couldn't find the > exact reference right now but I know in many countries they now have a > law where a random person can not register for a domain that is known > to be of a company and then later try to sell the domain to that > company... > > ------------ > > Anyway, let's hope mercantile can satisfy everyone and still provide > the domain registration services or perhaps better taken over by > someone else who is not a company.... > > > > -- Rajesh Pandey --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
