[wg-c] Please explain to my clients....

[Paul Garrin <pg@name-space.com>]

Are emerging TLDs (f/k/a "new" gTLDs) confusing to the public?
If so, please explain the facts to my clients who are apparently not confused
about their choices for their online identities.

The links below are selected from some of the active clients of Name.Space.
All of them result in functioning web sites which in many cases also share
domains in "com." "org." "net." and ccTLDs.  For the most part, the names
are highly descriptive of the accompanying content of the website, others
are more expressive,  imaginative or whimsical.  None of them appear
to infringe on any famous trademarks, nor do they seem to be speculative
on the intellectual property of others, but may be speculative only in the
sense that they believe that one day the new TLDs they contain will be
globally recognized.

Many of the clients paid a $30.00 registration fee for the use of the name,
DNS services and web hosting or URL re-direction.  Some of them
have been registered on a one-year free trial basis, while others are in
their second or third year of paid renewal.

There are thousands of others who are aware of new domains but
who have not made the committment to register them because of the
uncertainty of whether or not they will ever be globally recognized.
There are millions, perhaps eventually billions of individuals worldwide who,
once aware that there are more things to a web address than just
"DOT-COM", will vote in the marketplace with their payments (in
whatever currency) for the services, including DNS, that they
desire while using the net--not just "surfing"--but in their own use
as startup businesses, community organizations, and for personal,
expressive or other purposes.

Please explain to my clients why the names that they have chosen
to represent their presence on the internet are confusing or don't
make sense, or why they can't use them.   I think they would be
interested to know the reason for the *prior restraint* of their right
to freely represent their chosen identities as their web and internet
addresses when there is clearly no technical or legal justification
for doing so.

If you would like to actually resolve the following domains, there
are two options:

Switch your local DNS settings by following the instructions
located at http://name.space.xs2.net/switch
or
download the DNS switcher for windows (95-98-2k) from
http://name.space.xs2.net/software

or
append "XS2.NET" to the end of each of the following
URLs (i.e. http://name.space becomes http://name.space.xs2.net )
(in some cases where Name.Space does not provide DNS services,
appending "XS2.NET" will not function and you must switch your
local DNS settings to resolve them).

You may also look up each domain's "whois" listing at http://swhois.net
the Universal Domain Search Engine.

http://411.magic
http://abc.news
http://acronym.soup
http://amex.card
http://amile.art
http://anderson.consulting
http://aquant.partners/
http://argo.zone/
http://balkan.monitor
http://cbs.news/
http://ck.school/
http://conjure.women/
http://cooper.union/
http://cop.watch
http://crack.design/
http://copter.central/
http://dan.zero/
http://disaster.almanac/
http://dizzy.worldwide/
http://dns.411/
http://domini.cat/
http://entity.media/
http://electric.motors/
http://f1.sports/
http://fluxus.manifesto/
http://fluxus.online/
http://font.factory/
http://fox.news/
http://guggenheim.museum/
http://idea.works/
http://igor.magic/
http://infini.logic/
http://info.noticias/
http://info.war/
http://limo.service/
http://limousine.service/
http://lok.mail/
http://madcow.usa/
http://magellan.fund
http://matthea.dog/
http://media.filter
http://mesuda.usa/
http://meteori.books/
http://moma.nyc/
http://mondo.2000/
http://net.sauna/
http://nydaily.news/
http://octus.software/
http://ooksearch.time/
http://ouroboros.studios/
http://portabella.cat/
http://ritter.art/
http://round.sound/
http://rsl.club/
http://sound.culture/
http://technology.law/
http://the-root.zone/
http://the.thing/
http://triplet.software/
http://whiteleysfree.space/
http://zing.magazine/
http://zp.brasil/

These URLs represent the look of things to come.  If there is any moratorium,
it should be on the further restraint on emerging TLDs and the *existing*
industry
and economy that surrond them.  You can't call them "new TLDs" anymore.
Many of them are more than three years old now, and in "internet time"
(now a legally defined benchmark) three years is an eternity.

Respectfully submitted,

Paul Garrin
Founder/CEO
Name.Space, Inc.
http://name.space
http://name.space.xs2.net