Re: US Domain -- County Delegations

[kwe () 6SigmaNets com (Kent W. England)]

At 4:16 PM 8/1/95, Walter O. Haas wrote:
> My thinking has evolved away from geographically based names...
> the Internet is
> erasing geography, and I think that we would be living in the past if
> we relied too much on geography in naming.  It might make sense for
> "joes-garage" to be a geographically-qualified domain since the market
> for automobile repair is likely to be within a few miles of the business,
> but my little one-man consulting corporation is located in Salt Lake City
> with it's biggest customer in St. Louis.  For a business with essentially
> no geographic barriers, such as mine, it doesn't make much sense to
> include geography in the name regardless of where the corporation is
> registered.

Walt;

This is true for non-geographic markets, but what happens when the Internet
reaches a size where geographic markets develop?

In other words, when it makes sense to buy pizza on the Net, won't it make
sense to revive geographic naming, to serve geographic markets?

--Kent