"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Maybe. It is hard to say, because from the list we cannot determine
>> what the criteria were for selecting these names in the first place.
>> If you were to survey those registrants, and ask them if would register
>> their sites in rhs of the hyphen TLDs, you might get more of an idea.
> I'm not sure that's important or relevant. People didn't have any
> new extensions so they made them up on the right hand side of
> a dash in a com name and, for better or worse this is the *people*
> choice.
You are assuming that if TLDs with those extensions existed (in the legacy
root) they would have registered in them with names to the left of the
hyphen. There is not enough evidence just from the registrations themselves
to back this up.
IMHO, of course.
--gregbo
