Isn't it more likely that openly commercial new 2lds like bank.nz are simply attempts at bringing in revenue for InternetNZzzz....?
Uh ... lessee, there are ... what, 20 or 30 "bank"-sih entities? That's not a lot of income.
It's hardly a revenue gathering exercise. The resource-cost of the collective man-hours nznog as a collective[1] entity has spent reading/replying-to this discussion almost certainly exceeds any income that may be generated from it, possibly by orders of magnitude.
Especially when one is reading it. What I have got so far are these few salient points: 1) Some of us want .bank.nz 2) Some of us don't. 3) Some of us don't care. 4) Some of us want to eliminate the 2TD 5) Some of us don't. 6) Some of us don't care. 7) Some of us like curry on thursday night. Would you say that's a reasonably accurate representation of the thread? I have heard each of these points argued forwards, backwards upside down and sometimes even inside out. May I suggest that if you don't have anything more to add to the thread that you don't add it... Please, I don't want to have to resort to tactical procmailling. -- Cheers. James Tyson --- Samizdat New Media Solutions