+1 to that. Universally the people i've spoken with generally don't support the introduction of new TLD or 2LD which lead to nothing more than a scramble to protect trademarks and/or grab coveted domains for cybersquatting purposes.

How many $'s each year wind up in the pockets of registrys, etc, simply because CompanyX has to register CompanyX.com .net .org .co.nz .net.nz .co .info .mobi .biz ?? (and now .xxx ?) When the company universally uses perhaps two of those? (how many companies actually make use of .mobi vice using something like m.domain.com? when it's domain.com that has such universal brand recognition?)

I've not actually yet observed any demand to remove the 2LD in the NZ space from those i've spoken to (or overheard) and was surprised to see it appears to have so much traction.

Mark.

On 06/06/12 13:01, Sam Russell wrote:

Is that 1 million websites taking advantage of the TLD, or 1 million trademark owners protecting themselves?

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Keith Davidson <keith@keith.co.nz> wrote:

And yet apparently there are more than 1 million names registered in .xxx already. So there appears to be plenty of support for that TLD.

Cheers

Keith

On 6/06/2012 11:10 a.m., Sam Russell wrote:

Just stumbled across this:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401017,00.asp - it appears that
porn producers didn't want a .xxx domain, and every other organisation
felt obliged to buy their own .xxx domains to protect their brands. It
seems the people who will benefit most from more 2LDs will be NZ DNS
registrars.

*snip*