On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Keith Davidson wrote:
Then nznog would become a dull place...
Well no, we could back to talking about important things like beer! Oh! Light bulb goes on - 'beer.nz' - now there's something that really does represent a community of interest
Seriously though the only downside I can see in Andy's sensible discussion is that by collapsing the names, it increases the opportunity for domain name disputes. Currently most issues don't become disputes when more than one party are seeking the same name - many are happy to take the alternative .net/org/gen etc instead of having a scrap over it.
Given the UDRP for the gTLD's and the increasing tension over trademarks and copyright etc, isn't it better to have more choice rather than less?
But I don't think I said get rid of the second level domains. I said let them atrophy as needed. If there's still a demand they'll flourish!
The above may not be the ideal algorithm for sorting this thing out but I'm sure it's not beyond the wit of man/woman to devize something that works.
Devize? How American...
(:-) Could be Cornish - they've used Devizes for years! - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog