Re: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com>]

To provide a relevant contemporary example, see Deja (nee DejaNews).
Hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of users, huge number of hits
per day, at least tens of thousnads if not hundreds of thousands of
e-mail addresses, all their corporate letterhead, business cards,
company name changed.

Seems to have gone fairly smoothly looking in from the outside.  This
isn't the kind of thing that one day, a registrar's going to wake up
and send e-mail to the contact for foo.com and say, "You will be forced
to lose your address in 90 days.  Change everything you've got by then,
or tough luck."  This kind of thing will be known about months in 
advance.

In fact, I'd argue that it'd actually be *easier* for someone the
larger they are, because the various media would cover it, and word of
mouth would reach most people well within the allotted cutover time
period.

This'll be more difficult for smaller groups.  But then, as I said,
this happens all the time.  And I've already proposed a mechanism by
which the cutover can be facilitated with adequate notice to everyone
concerned.

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