At 21:50 26/08/2002 +1200, you wrote:
Umm.. creating a 2nd Level domain for around 10 large multimillion dollar companies?? How many man hours are going to go into discussing/voting/arguing over something which affects a _VERY_ small amount of companys (who already have domain names anyway that most people know)
kiwi.bank.nz anz.bank.nz bnz.bank.nz national.bank.nz rural.bank.nz reserve.bank.nz city.bank.nz taranakisavings.bank.nz countrywide.bank.nz westbanktrust.bank.nz (I think I missed some)
direct.bank.nz asb.bank.nz hongkong.bank.nz ...
What about the other good purposes of it? Good examples... (they are banks, but nothing to do with finance..) blood.bank.nz sperm.bank.nz piggy.bank.nz nigerian.bank.nz john.bank.nz
the.bank.nz ? The question really does have to be asked - exactly for what purpose do we *really* need another 2LD ? Craig is right, the number of people with legitimate uses for this domain is .. well i can see a *bigger* market for things like: isp.nz (Wont that confuse people?) petrolstation.nz supermarket.nz cornerstore.nz car.nz (BMW make cars with IPs nowadays dont they? Dont they have an entire Class A ?) Isnt the whole thing pedantic? I vote a very emphatic NO. (I voted no for maori.nz as well, and I will again. If this sort of thing is implimented merely because those of us who think logically enough to understand that its a waste of time decided they couldnt be bothered, it creates us bigger headaches in the long term and destroys our confidence in the .nz architecture.) Mark. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog