Re[2]: [wg-c] Eureka?

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

Friday, August 06, 1999, 1:33:16 PM, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:36:42PM -0700, Christopher Ambler wrote:

>> Your assertion that creating additional
>> TLDs has no effect on the value of other TLDs is plainly wrong: the
>> value of computers.com approaches nil when there are 300 other TLDs
>> that can register the same name.

> Nice theory.

> It is currently possible to register "computers.to", "computers.nu",
> and "computers.xx", where xx is one of several other "open ccTLDs". 
> I don't see the value of "computers.com" rapidly approaching "nil". 
> In fact, the value of "computers.com" has probably increased
> substantially over the last six months.  In fact, it is just as 
> likely that the addition of 300 new TLDs would make "computer.com" 
> *more* valuable, not less, because of the visibility it would confer.

> One can make arguments from the blind theory of supply and demand, 
> but in fact there are too many unknowns at this point to predict.


Kent,

I could be particularly salient here and post responses you have made
to others who have tried to use ccTLDs as comparisons to gTLDs, in
which you have most scathingly pointed out that they are not
analogous.  Instead I will merely point out that ccTLDs performance
cannot possible be used to predict future gTLD performance.


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