Re: [wg-c] new TLDs

[bill@mail.nic.nu (J. William Semich)]

Er, why not "bank.us" and "bank.uk"?

Bill

At 09:43 AM 12/22/99 -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote:
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>> Your proposal for a .BANK tld is an interesting idea, and one
>> example of literally hundreds of possible applications of new
>> tlds.
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>Does this include savings and loans?  Credit unions?  Investment banks?  
>The US Federal Reserve?  My stock brokerage offers many bank-like
>services, so I guess they can be a .BANK too.  What about food or blood
>banks? How about SoftBank?  How about a web site on how to bank billiard
>shots?  And we can't forget the man who broke the Bank at Monte Carlo or
>the booksellers on the Left Bank in Paris. Nor should we forget about our
>friend the Piggy Bank.
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>And our English-centricity is showing: Will we need the equivalent word as
>TLDs in other languages?
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>Chartered TLDs lead to sillyness.
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Bill Semich
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