Re: UKNM: "cybersquatter"

[Dan Leighton]

they've been planning to release these new tlds since 1996 i seem to

remember!


so i wouldn't hold yer breath anyone...


d.


Leslie Bunder wrote:

>

> yep, I remember the "planned" launch of all those new top level domains

such

> as .web, .store, .arts etal...

>

> It was going to happen sometime in early 1999!  I think everything is on

> hold at the mo following the busting of the Network Solutions monopoly on

> top level domains...

>

> But from what I've heard and seen (on news.com and other places), new

names

> could happen later this year!

>

> But alas, even then it is not going to solve the problem of squatters, it

> just means more names to contend with and more issues to face.  Should a

> generic sounding name such as United.web go to United Airlines or some SME

> business called United Consulting????

>

> Guess it will be a matter of first come first served.

>

> Leslie

>

> > -----Original Message-----

>

> From: Tim [dot] Haywardjwt [dot] com [Tim [dot] Haywardjwt [dot] com (mailto:Tim [dot] Haywardjwt [dot] com)]

> > Sent: 17 April 2000 16:41

>

> To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> > Subject: Re: UKNM: "cybersquatter"

> >

> >

> > I must confess that this whole area fascinates me too. There

> > seem to be huge

> > numbers of people speculating in this area which seems legally 'grey'.

> >

> > What happened to the notion of a whole raft of new suffixes?

> >

> > Above all, what happened to that rather quaint notion of 'Old Nick'

> > Negroponte

> > in 'Being Digital' - the thought that users aren't really

> > interested in

> > remembering a phone number when the technology exists to call by name?

> >

> > What if my (new broadband speed) browser did a sort of 'Ask

> > Jeeves' fuzzy

> > search

> > when I typed in the beginning of the name, flashing up full

> > pages instead of

> > URL

> > suggestions under the location bar?

> >

> > Is anyone doing any HCI work around the notion of losing the

> > URL altogether?

> >

> > Now that companies are falling over each other to

> > disassociate themselves

> > with

> > the term .com, perhaps it's time to do a Lord Lucan.... make the Earl

> > disappear

> > (sorry - couldn't resist it).

> >

> > What do we reckon?



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