Urb LeJeune writes:
> > Another is lack of understanding of the web: one common example is that
> > nearly every new movie that comes out has its *own* domain, which
> > is completely wrong and utterly bogus. (Web sites for movies should
> > be hosted within the releasing company's domain.)
>
> Generally agree with your comments, except the above. Large
> companies,would simpley start another corporation (bet that already have one
> for each movie/product) which is wholly owned. The hardship would be on
> small companies like mine. I have several geographically oriented sites,
> ILoveAC.com, ILoveLBI.com and soon coming to a monitor near you,
> ILoveCapeMay.com. Technicially, I am breaking the sprit of the
> regulation. Would you have me go through the expense of setting up and
> keeping books for three different corporations?
What makes you think you have to start three different
corporations? It's not a regulation, it's the way the system was
designed and engineered to work. Organizations (like a corporation)
are supposed to request one root domain and subdomain other things off
of it, not clutter up the namespace by requiring an individual root
domain for every system (or every website). (Oddly enough, in its own
way it's a lot like the way trademarks work).
Admittedly, your particular marketing approach to choosing a
domain name doesn't fit well with the way the domain name system was
designed and engineered, but who's responsible for that?
Most of the current mess in the domain space springs from the
fact that nobody addressed the situation proactively, and NSI
certainly didn't do anything to police the process - they were too
busy counting their ill-gotten loot...
> > And another is plain corporate stupidity; it's too early for
> me to > recall the particular company that did this (Proctor & Gamble?), but
> > they did not *need* to register several dozen domain names describing
> > the maladies that their products address.
>
> Was P&G and as I remember it they registered several thousand domain
> names in one day. I think they broke the back of free registration.
Actually, I believe that was Bayer. They did this back when
domains were still $35 each (not per year, just one payment),
reserving domains like "stomachache.com", "headache.com", etc.
And you're right, it was somewhere close to or above a thousand
domains. In one day. Ouch! I need some aspirin (maybe they were
just trying to drum up business :-).
Steven J. Owens
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