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Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
From: Paul A Vixie <paul () vix com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:02:00 -0700
but they all get nice short names. And the folks at Green Auto Parts in Raleigh NC can still register as green.com.nc.us and they will be quite happy since they only have 10 machines on their store LAN.
but they won't. they'll want green.biz. if you were right that they'd be quite happy, then our local newspaper would have called their domain SF-EXAMINER.COM rather than EXAMINER.COM. but they were almost certainly worried that if they didn't take EXAMINER.COM, some other daily newspaper would surely take it, and they'd somehow be worse off. we're getting well into the murky arena where perception begins to dominate the equation. people _believe_ that short domain names indicate quality or size or "greatness" (i call this "domain envy"), and so it becomes true. it's sort of like thin-vs-wide ties, or hemlines. i'm not sure that we as technologists are well equipped to deal with this issue, but i am quite certain that the nontechnologists would do an even worst job, so here we are.
Current thread:
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations, (continued)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Paul A Vixie (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Kevin Oberman (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Michael Dillon (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations George Herbert (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Paul A Vixie (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations George Herbert (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Paul A Vixie (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations bmanning (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Gordon Cook (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Michael Dillon (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Paul A Vixie (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Nicolas Williams (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Michael Dillon (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Geert Jan de Groot (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Henry Clark (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Nikos Mouat (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Kevin Oberman (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Curtis Villamizar (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Interpath Hostmaster (Jul 31)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Paul A Vixie (Jul 31)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Michael Dillon (Jul 27)