On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, at 10:36 [=GMT-0700], Vernon Schryver wrote: > > From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu > > On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:57:20 +0100, Marc Schneiders said: > > > > > It would make long domain names of the type > > > domainnamebargainscheaper.com obsolete. > > > > Why? unless you manage to get 'cheaper.' as a TLD, and create the name > > as domain.name.bargains.cheaper. - or am I missing something? > > And what's wrong with DomainNameBargainsCheaper.com or > domain-name-bargains-cheaper.com? > How would replacing '-' with '.' affect anything? It would mean you were dependent on the enduring goodwill of the registrant of cheaper.com to delegate the subdomain to you. > I've noticed an odd thing while draining my spam traps. When I see an > advertised domain name that consists of two or concatenated more English > words, it's usually Oriental. I don't mean necessarily hosted in Asia > but with non-ASCII content. It's as if Oriental spammers are smarter > about creating memorable English domain names and avoiding the squatters. My observations give a different impression. People from Asia (esp. Korea) register any two or three word .com domain that expires, because a speculator is no longer willing to put money into it. I would say it proves that they are good scripters. > > > Using domains will become > > > easier. > > > > Empirical evidence indicates the biggest problem is finding the 1 out of 41M > > .com domains and avoiding all the typosquatters... > > and neither of those has anything to do with the last 4 characters of the > name. Well, if there is .shop, .bargain, .free, .web in addition to .biz and .com, more people can just do business from NAME.TLD and do not have to go for NAME-corp.TLD, NAME-easy.TLD, NAME-bargain.TLD etc. Try the following on some dull party perhaps? Test which of the two following sets can more easily be memorized: domainbargain.com domainnamebargain.com namebargain.com easydomain.com easydomains.com domain.bargain domain.shop domain.biz domain.easy domain.reg domains.com (this one to make it not too easy) -- [01] All ideas are vintage not new or perfect. http://logoff.org/