Re: [ga] New Top Level Domains Considered Harmful

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally I think they should have just made it similar to the phone book.
All categories. That would have also decreased the amount of trademark
infringement arbitrations and travesties.

Nissan.cars or Nissan.auto would have protected their trademark.
Nissan.anything else would not have been an infringement unless they used it
to sell cars.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M. Morfin" <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] New Top Level Domains Considered Harmful


> TLD are Internet Crests. Everyone wants to show they are of royal
> familly. Absurd: domain names are string aliases for IP addresses.
> What is dumb stupid is to have built an dumb stupid economical model
> on their sales.
> jfc
>
>
>
> At 16:38 06/12/2005, Danny Younger wrote:
> >Excerpted from "New Top Level Domains Considered
> >Harmful" by Tim Berners-Lee
> >http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLD
> >
> >"Our first instincts, then should be not to change the
> >system with anything but incremental and carefully
> >thought-out changes. The addition of new top-levels
> >domains is a very disturbing influence. It carries
> >great cost. It should only be undertaken when there is
> >a very clear benefit to the new domain. In the case of
> >the proposed .mobi domain, the change is actually
> >detrimental.
> >
> >The Economics of Domain Names
> >
> >In practice, for most domain name owners, the part
> >between the "www" and the top level domain is their
> >brand, or their name. It is something they need to
> >protect. This means that in practice, a serious
> >organization to avoid confusion has to own its domain
> >in every non-geographical top level domain. For a
> >large company, the cost of this may be insignificant.
> >For a small enterprise, a non-profit organization or a
> >family, the cost becomes very significant.
> >
> >The chief effect of the introduction of the .biz and
> >.info domains appears to have been a cash influx for
> >the domain name registries. Example Inc. as mentioned
> >above owns example.com, org and .net. Does it also
> >have to buy .biz, .info, and .name to avoid confusion
> >and the misappropriation of my name by others? Will I
> >have to also rent "example.mobi" in case it want to
> >make information available for people who use wireless
> >equipment?
> >
> >The market for second-level domains is a market for a
> >limited resource. After an unstable period when the
> >first come first served system was in play and greedy
> >squatters grabbed domains simply for speculation, it
> >has now settled down. Introducing new TLDs has two
> >effects.
> >
> >The first effect is a little like printing more money.
> >The value of one's original registration drops. At the
> >same time, the cost of protecting one's brand goes up
> >(from the cost of three domains to four, five, ...).
> >
> >The value of each domain name such as example.com also
> >drops because of brand dilution and public confusion.
> >Even though most people largely ignore the last
> >segment of the name, when it is actually used to
> >distinguish between different owners, this increases
> >the mental effort required to remember which company
> >has which top level domain. This makes the whole name
> >space less usable.
> >
> >Is it fair to reduce the value of these domains which
> >have been acquired at great cost by their owners?
> >
> >The second effect is that instability is brought on.
> >There is a flurry of activity to reserve domain names,
> >a rush one cannot afford to miss in order to protect
> >one's brand. There is a rash of attempts to steal
> >well-known or valuable domains. The whole process
> >involves a lot of administration, a lot of cost per
> >month, a lot of business for those involved in the
> >domain name business itself, and a negative value to
> >the community."
> >
> >Comments?
> >
> >
> >
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