On 15-Feb-99 Kerry Miller wrote:
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> Antony,
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> > 3. Consumer-driven e-commerce will only work in chartered TLDs if
> > there are no unchartered TLDs. In other words, who the hell wants
> > to be ford.automakers when you can be ford.com, especially when
> > .automakers is one of thousands of chartered TLDs?
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> I suggest that if the mandate of .com required that *cost of
> merchanise* had to be stated onsite, much of the pressure would
> be relieved.
Sounds like you are presuming the only commercial use a domain can have is to
be a sales site. Far from it.
> For 'enforcement', there is a body of net users who I imagine would
> be happy to tip off violators.
But this requires a team to investigate such reports. I was formerly in charge
of the Abuse Investigations team (a 100% volunteer effort) for ml.org, and I
can tell you that investigation are not as simple and straightforward as you
may think, and we dealt only with spam and illegal activity matters, issues you
would think were very straightforward. Imaging trying to enforce such an
illusive rule like what defines commercial use.....
> As for *implementation, it seems like an ideal place to use XML.
>
> kerry
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Date: 15-Feb-99
Time: 11:18:22
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