they're typically not as meaningful or relevant as a new TLD that reflects the consumer's affiliation if i have a shoe store I prefer richards.shoes over richardsshoes.tm its an example of Antony's Aunt Mille comment. The fact that people aren't eating her 12 year old pudding doesn't mean they're not hungry R On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
On 1 Apr 2011, at 18:28, Richard Tindal wrote:
Yes, I mean the currently constrained supply of attractive second level domains, from COM and other TLDs.
the market is artificially constrained because there could be more extensions -- which would provide more second level choice.
Richard
Well I could easily argue that there's nothing to stop someone from registering a name in any of the 250+ ccTLDs
A lot of them are underused :)
Regards
Michele
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