RE: [wg-review] [IDNH] & @Large Members Organization

["Cindy Merry" <tomerrys@inter-linc.net>]

Again on the limiting TLDs.  I've had several circumstances where I have
been unable to get the "best" domain name for my clients and someone else
was already using or holding hostage that name.  Having the name I wanted
attached to a TLD besides .com still isn't the most optimal in the business
world, especially with the present consumers understanding of how to find
something on the Internet.  Sometimes I think the hype surrounding the TLDs
is amusing to some degree for those of us in small businesses.  I find that
having an existing brand name that I have to use different medias to
advertise is still the answer to finding customers.  So what if I have
cindymerry.com or cindymerry.biz or cindymerry.travel.  I have still got to
find a way to communicate to my potential customers how to find me.  The
last time I typed Cindy Merry into a search engine it took me to a site
with  ladies...well you know:)...  Most of my customers and the average guy
using the Internet don't seem to be in to typing  .    anything after a
name.  For clarification I don't have a domain name under my name, nor did
I want one.  The real hostage on domain names is the business with an
already established name that they have spent a lot of time and money
promoting that is taken by someone else.  As far as I can see with TLDs,
the TLD that wins is the TLD that the consumer becomes most familiar with
using.

So I guess what I'm asking is how limiting TLDs controls the flow of
information?

Thanks,  Cindy Merry

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-wg-review@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-review@dnso.org]On Behalf
Of Sotiropoulos
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:14 PM
To: Cindy Merry
Cc: wg-review@dnso.org
Subject: RE: [wg-review] [IDNH] & @Large Members Organization

"Cindy Merry" <tomerrys@inter-linc.net> wrote:

>...I also think that most of the people who are on the work group appear
to care very much about what is being done.  And I'm not sure that being
paid
>to be here is bad...  Sometimes I represent clients and their causes
(getting paid) and I still strongly believe in that cause as a private
person, an
>individual.
<..snip..>
>I definitely agree that the flow of information should never be controlled
by any entity.
<..snip..>
>The one thing I still don't understand is why limiting the number of Top
>Level Domain names is considered a good thing?  If this is a communication
>device why can't there be a plethora of TLDs?

Most likely because many of the people who *are* paid to be here, represent
interests that wish to control the flow of Information.

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc.


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