Re: [ga] Localized TLDs

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thats all fine if someone wants to create those tlds. Again, I don't think
ICANN should be deciding how to structure it. Let the market decide. If
someone wants to create .212 or .90210, who cares? let them. If someone else
wants to create .zebra, .idiot, .bushsux, .earwig, it doesn't matter. If
there business plan sucks, they will go out of business. If their business
plan is a good one, they will do well. Hooray! I've just described free
enterprise!

Chris McElroy
http://www.kidsearchnetwork.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] Localized TLDs


> Danny Younger wrote:
>
> > I started wondering what the internet might be like
> > if, for example, a New York City resident could access
> > local content by recourse to a .212 TLD that limited
> > registrations to those that had a phone number in the
> > 212 area code.
>
> In my post http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg03436.html
> on Decemeber 16, I likened the gTLD namespace to the area code system, but
> I do not support the idea of localized area code TLDs per se.  I think a
> far more prudent approach would be to use the existing ccTLD hierarchy for
> any such localized breakdown.
>
> >My assumption is that such New Yorkers
> > would have no problem becoming accustomed to a
> > numerical TLD that corresponded with their own area
> > code and would probably discover a great amount of
> > utility in such a namespace.
> >
> > John Klensin has been fond of pointing out that the
> > nature of the current naming system is such that it
> > cannot support both Joe's Pizza (of Boston) and Joe's
> > Pizza (of San Francisco) as only one joespizza may be
> > registered in a TLD.
> > http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-klensin-dns-role/
>
> Well, joespizza.us is currently available so I'd say that there's still at
> least one opportunity for some lucky Joe... ;-)
>
> >
> > If each area code had its own TLD, then the Joe's of
> > this world would have a greater opportunity to
> > establish domains that corrsponded with their
> > particular business identities.  Yes, it's a taxonomic
> > approach with nexus requirements, but it would
> > probably serve local communities better than the
> > current set of alternatives.
>
> Again, I would say a more prudent and logical approach would be to use the
> existing ccTLD and to partition it further based on states/provinces and
> perhaps regions or even cities; an approach will already exists in fact.
>
> Amiably,
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>