Hi Ewen,
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Ewen McNeill
On 2012-05-30 10:09 , lenz wrote:
The whole 3rd level thing is really dying out.
"Namespaces are hard, let's go shopping"?
From a technical point of view, i am totally with you, I love namespaces and do use sub domains. Unfortunately the internet is not about geeks anymore, there is a whole raft of users (I deal with them every day) that have no clue about namespaces and, much to my frustration, don't want to be educated. all they care about is a easy to remember name, the shorter the better. The fact that they have to choose between a .co.nz or a .net.nz makes many customers just choose a .somethingelse ... maybe a .kiwi in the future.
Again, this is an observation I made with customers, this is not how I would love the internet to be ... but I am pretty sure we are way beyond what we geeks thought internet may be already. I am for a free market regulated TLD if it does not hurt too much, giving up a strict third level policy is in my view a "does not hurt" decision. cheers lenz -- twitter: @norbu09 current project: iWantMyName.com