John L ha scritto:
It is my opinion that we need to dedicate some more thought on this matter BEFORE, rather than AFTER introducing new TLDs.
I'm with you. Of the new gTLDs, the only ones that have succeeded so far are .BIZ and .INFO, because they're clones of .COM. Maybe you could call .NAME a success with about 200,000 names. I think .MOBI is likely to succeed because it's going to be put in front of a whole lot of mobile phone users. Other than that, they're all gathering dust. On the other
It depends on how you measure success. .CAT only has 20'000 names, yet it is a success. No doubt - just ask anyone in Barcelona. I think that we should stop measuring the success of TLDs in terms of sheer number of registrations, as there's much more attached to that. If you like, I'd propose - in qualitative terms - the product of the number of registrations by how much registrants feel attached to or identify with the domain: that'd already be better. Given that you can have at least several thousands of TLDs, if you only have a few thousands of registrants but that TLD really makes a difference to them in emotional or symbolic terms, why not? In any case, I have started to write down what I would like to see as principles and values to guide the introduction of new TLDs. If we all do the same, we might come up with a common statement. I already solicited a statement from the Committee several times, because the issue will certainly come up in Board discussion in the next weeks; so I would suggest that someone takes the lead on this, and we start up yet another consultation and working group. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------