Re: [ga] FW: Comment from the gTLD Registry Constituency

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Allan and all assembly members,

Allan Liska wrote:

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> Hello Jeff,
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> Monday, September 30, 2002, 12:12:13 AM, you wrote:
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> JW>   Indeed as you rightly point out.  .COM is essentially dead, it just
> JW> hasn't laid down yet.  >:) .NET will soon also die,
> JW> The reasons you nicely brought together here are the same ones
> JW> made some time ago now, but you did a much better
> JW> job here of abbreviating them.  Well done!
>
> Just because you have been unable to figure out how to register a
> domain does not mean that .COM, or any other domain, is dead.

  Oh but I do.  I do not have any .COM DN's registered however
any longer...

>
>
> In fact if you look at the latest statistics compiled by State of the
> Domain (https://www.sotd.info/) you will see that in August there
> were 21,234,458 .COM domains registered.

  I hardly call this a creditable source as it is in a TLD that is a
collider.

>  More than 3 times all of the
> other GTLDs combined -- hardly a sign that .COM is dead.

  .COM is dead in the sense that it no longer represents what Jefsey
rightly pointed out.  Your spin here is a different story.

>
>
> As with any claim you make you cannot provide a single credible piece
> of information to back up the statement that ".COM is essentially
> dead".  I mean, you could pose the question to the mythical
> "Information Network Eng. Group." and see what they think, of course I
> could also ask the Oracle at Delphi -- either way the answer would be
> pure fiction.
>
> allan
> - --
> Allan Liska
> allan@allan.org
> http://www.allan.org
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Regards,

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