On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:56:50 EDT, Robert Boyle said:
I don't think Cisco, Sun, Microsoft, or any other companies do either. When I look for a company, I don't care or need to know where they are located most of the time - unless I am ordering a pizza, but that is a different story...
You have it totally backwards. The problem is that with a single flat .com space, you have *NO WAY* of knowing where a company is located most of the time, and a lot more things resemble pizzas than they resemble cookie-cutter computer hardware sold to us by cookie-cutter salesdroids... Consider smartway.com and smartways.com and smartwaybus.com. Only one of them has the bus schedule I needed. And I'm pretty sure that neither shelor.com nor glo-dot.com doesn't need to be taking a slot in the *global* address space. In fact, they have a number of things in common - neither is a global concern in any realistic sense, I've done business with both of them, in both cases the business was entirely due to geographic location, and in neither case did their presence in the .com domain make *any* difference in the slightest. And in both cases, their name precludes the usage by *anybody* *else* *anywhere* in *any* field. I've bought a *lot* of music gear at Rocket Music. But rocketmusic.com isn't them. It isn't rocket-music.com either. They're actually at rocketmusic.net. More trademark collision at its finest. Let's face it - 40 million things dumped into one .com without a yellow pages is a stupid way to run a network. But it's what we're stuck with.