Re: [wg-c] .com vs. ccTLDs in Europe

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 05:29:44PM -0400, A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
[...]
> 
> Other NICs like FR took different approaches.
> 
> The tradeoffs were clearly different; however, in balance,
> it would appear the findings of the Washington Workshop
> proved rather successful and appropriate for the greatest
> common good. No?

No.  There is no necessary correlation.  Despite NSI's dreams to the
contrary, the explosive growth of the net was not driven by the
availability of domain names.  Also: arguably, if registrations in
.com, .net, and .org had been much more restricted, there would have
been growth in private third level domain registries.  Such a 
development would have been far healthier.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain