IP: Re ICANN's proposed restrictions on use of famous names

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 10:56:23 +0200
> From: Erik Huizer <Erik.Huizer () sec nl>
>
> Dave,
>
> James Love <love () cptech org> wrote:
>
> > While several country TLDs have tried to compete against NSI for
> > registering domains, for the most part the action is in .com, a single
> > TLD.  IMO, this is because ccTLDs like .to, .de, .au etc are not
> > particularly well known,  intuitive or appealing.
>
> This is a very US-centric view of the Internet world. In fact in my
> country (the Netherlands) .nl is very popular, more so then .com. If
> you want to reach the Dutch public you use .nl.
>
> My impression is that this is also the case in most other European and
> Asian countries.
>
> Erik