In message , Andy Li nton writes:

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Ewen McNeill wrote:

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And then someone could build a directory service over the top of that offering a one-to-many mapping.

And as Chris pointed out that's (almost) already been done by Google (or whoever you deem to be search engine of the moment).

Google is the best-substitute-for-a-directory-service which we have at the moment. It's not exactly ideal. Your point that we could be focusing on a new directory service is definitely a good one. Although I personally think if we're going to take that approach to a logical conclusion we should completely devalue domain names (making them provider assigned arbitrary strings) to take the rest of the argument out of them. Half-measures seem like a recipie for additional problems.

Imagine this debate being held over 0800 numbers:

Except that the other prefixes that you talk about are purely arbitrary in the 0800-etc case, and the second level domain suffixes being suggested here are at least somewhat meaningful divisons. The equivilent to suggesting 801, 802, et al (which incidentally do exist in another form, viz 0800, 0508, in NZ, and others in the US) would be someone suggesting co1.nz, co2.nz, co3.nz etc. I don't think anyone's seriously suggested co1.nz yet.

Also nice to note the categories before and after BANKS: Balloons-Hot Air and Banners. There's some food for thought in the Yellow Pages categories.

:-)

And the justification would be the same as that of the banks. And of course 'celts.nz' can use many of the arguments put forward by 'maori.nz'.

And celts.nz has my support. When are you submitting the proposal? I'll pledge $10 towards the $1000 fee for celts.nz as well (I've already pledged $10 for geeks.nz for Dean). Ewen - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog