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

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

Just a personal opinion here, but wouldn't this be more appropriate
on one of the general discussion lists rather than here?



On 20-Oct-99 Martin B. Schwimmer wrote:
> Well, I can see why the 1994 policy decision benefited
> registrars, but if
> it doesn't use up your two posts, I would be interested in
> hearing your
> rationale why it served the "greatest common good."  I don't
> think that it
> is self-evident that the registration of a .com name in and of
> itself
> serves the "greatest common good."   It seems that the creation
> of the most
> self-evidently worthwhile resources on the Internet (usenet, ftp,
> various
> resources in .edu, search engines, AOL, Geocities, e-commerce
> sites such as
> eBay and Amazon, free email and the Bill Gates wealth clock)
> would be
> pretty much the same under either regimes while one phenomena
> which is a
> definite dead weight loss (cyber-piracy) and another phenomena of
> little
> added economic value (name speculation) would barely exist under
> a TLD that
> had a modicum of restrictions.
> 
> That's my two posts for the day.  Speak to you tomorrow.
> 
> 
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