Well put Michael,
I think the domain name its self is becoming ever more irrelevant to the
average user. People search for what they want, and many people think
that the Google (or other provider) search box is the address bar.
When I look at various website stats the majority of users get there via
search engines not domain names.
That being said having a massive explosion of 2ld would cause me to
question the validity and trust worthiness of some sites
Gareth Davies
Systems Administrator - Web Applications
DD +64 9 574 0123 EXT 8465
www.fphcare.com
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On 30/05/12 2:26 PM, "Joel Wiramu Pauling"
I am all for them;
screw it - it is a directory service for looking up IPs - we have random hierarchy imposed on top as if it actually conveys some important semantic information.
Maybe it did at some point, but it hasn't for ages. Get over it.
Time moves on. There are browsers where I can type "Smiths Crisps" into the URL field and it searches, in real time, with live expansion, for the appropriate "Smiths". And will find me what I want, along the way distinguishing between the band, the clock maker, the snack maker, the UK conglomerate and the French oil exploration company. What has this to do with DNS? Not much. Point being that typing in latestephemeralmoviefranchise.com is not how the world actually gets places now. Hence, expanding the 2ld.nz is addressing an increasingly irrelevant problem, if it addresses one at all.
The problem it solves is that there is a subset of Domain holders who feel their identities can better be expressed through a 2LD.nz - than through the existing boxes.
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