I would certainly say there's an elitism, or perhaps a higher level of credibility given to a .com or .net site, due to the fact that they've probably existed for quite a bit longer than a .biz or .info. Although looking at that list I might note that I probably would include .us with .com and .net, despite it's very recent deregulation, or perhaps because of it. Relating back to this thread, I have to conclude that because of this, and the fact that .net/.com makes up the majority of the registry this needs to be watched very carefully, and preemptive action taken should verisign make an anouncement, to suspend their registrar contract. On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:54:15 +0200 (CEST) "Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)" <henk@ripe.net> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
In this day and age, people don't guess URLs anymore by sticking .com at the end of a word so there is no longer any advantage to using a .com domain name over a .biz or .info or .us.
FWIW, I still do as it is faster than google. I bet that that there are more people like me.
Also, some browsers add ".com" if your URL doesn't end in ".something". Others cycle through a list of possibilities, but there ".com" is always the first on the list.
Henk
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