+1. Carlton ============================= On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
On 29 July 2010 18:09, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
.CO INTERNET: .CO absolutely cannot and will not be marketed as a typo
to .COM.
This is what we refer to as "wink, wink, nudge, nudge."
If you're not in Colombia, what other plausible reason is there to register a domain there, for three times the price of one in .COM?
It can be a duplicate but that doesn't mean it's squatting. It can also mean that one can register a .co that might be held by a speculator under .com
Brand owners seem to have little to worry about -- their takedown measures are getting tighter every day. But generic-word owners -- especially speculators -- just found that their "possessions" just got a little less valuable thanks to competition, which is fine with me.
Then again, you have many, many business names that end in "co". Ie, texa.co, ntt-domo.co, pet.co, etc. The company that once had to settle for ' thefitco.com' can now try for 'fit.co',
I don't see what the fuss is about. The faster that the world sees there's nothing magically special about ".com" the better for all of us,
- Evan _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann...
At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org