RE: Read this...Re: offtopic for NANOG - do not read
On Saturday, April 26, 1997 12:54 PM, Carl Oppedahl[SMTP:carl@oppedahl.com] wrote: @ At 04:31 PM 04/26/97 -0400, Vince Wolodkin wrote: @ @ >The only @ >thing NSI has truly done that is awful is their TM dispute policy, and @ >the IAHC has taken that very thing under its own wing. @ @ Unfortunately for the Internet community, NSI has made it clear that it @ doesn't plan to yield any control over .COM to anyone else, ever: @ @ Networks Solutions seemed more definite. "It is not our @ intention to share .com or the others [domains] we @ register," Network Solutions spokesman @ Christopher Clough said. "Those would obviously [be] @ assets that we've developed . . . much as Microsoft @ wouldn't share DOS," its proprietary software. @ Network Solutions favors competition, but only in the @ registration of new types of domains, Clough said. @ @ (Network Solutions Dropped as Registrar Of Internet @ Domains, By David S. Hilzenrath, April 24 1997; The Washington Post.) @ @ Thus, it seems likely that (barring a shift in control over .COM) NSI would @ continue forever, carrying out its awful policy and putting innocent domain @ name owners out of business. @ @ The only way that innocent domain name owners will have the cloud of NSI's @ awful domain name policy lifted from their heads is if indeed the control @ over .COM shifts elsewhere. So far as I can see, the most likely way for @ that to happen is if IAHC's plans move forward and are put into place. @ @ @ @ @ People and companies can now register in other domains than .COM. Why would a company want a .COM domain when they can have something more expressive ? -- Jim Fleming Unir Corporation http://www.Unir.Corp Check out...http://www.Naperville.Mall
JimFleming@Unir.Corp said:
People and companies can now register in other domains than .COM.
Why would a company want a .COM domain when they can have something more expressive ?
For one reason, they may have registered their domain quite a while ago and spent millions in collateral advertising for that domain and it would be foolish to try to switch. Second, the millions of browsers out there support .com by default! You don't have to type in WWW.NETSOL.COM but just NETSOL and the browser will prepend WWW and append .COM for you. geoff
On Sat, Apr 26, 1997 at 03:50:44PM -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
People and companies can now register in other domains than .COM.
Why would a company want a .COM domain when they can have something more expressive ?
Because when users on 99% of the internet send mail to them, it will work. As opposed to when they send mail to you, and get back this confusing message telling them that the domain name "unir.corp" cannot be found, and that their mail cannot be delivered. It seems to me that that would only express to the consumer that the business they're trying to contact doesn't know how to connect to the internet. Luckily, no one that I support has come to me asking why they can't access a domain outside of the traditional TLDs. They'd probably just think it was a typo anyways. -SteveK -- Steve Kann i/o 360 digital design 841 Broadway, Suite 502 Personal:stevek@SteveK.COM (finger for PGP) Business:stevek@io360.com I don't want your product or service, and I don't want to make money fast, so please don't send me your junk mail telling me about any of it.
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