At 04:09 PM 11/27/99 -0500, A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
>In case anyone missed it, piiq.com spent a bundle
>to advertise on major US TV networks that there was
>new business domain consisting of the algorithm of
>p[anything]q.com It was a takeoff on the old saying
>to "mind your p's and q's."
>
>So they effectively created a quasi new TLD buried
>within the COM domain by sandwiching any desired
>word between p and q. One wonders how many others
>are going to arise like this.
>
Also note Uk's Nominet who operate uk.com, gb.com and gb.net as
de facto TLD's a la co.uk. They have their own registry, whois
servers, everything. In fact the president of the company (name
escapes me, it's been a long time since we've conversed) actually
sits on the board of advisors or whatever it is for the .co.uk
registry.
They are also planning on rolling out other geo-specific SLD's,
but I think I was supposed to keep my mouth shut about the
specifics when they told me about it. So I will.
When I secured "versus.ms" some of my friends suggested selling
"versus.ms" domain names. I haven't done this but I have assigned
a few to parties who expressed an interest, "freebsd.versus.ms"
is gone, "openbsd.versus.ms" is reserved and I operate "linux.versus.ms"
as a side project ("unix.versus.ms" is aliased to linux for now)
-mark
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easyDNS Technologies Inc. http://www.easyDNS.com/
