Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

[Andrew D Kirch <trelane () trelane net>]

I would certainly say there's an elitism, or perhaps a higher level of credibility given to a .com or .net site, due to 
the fact that they've probably existed for quite a bit longer than a .biz or .info.  Although looking at that list I 
might note that I probably would include .us with .com and .net, despite it's very recent deregulation, or perhaps 
because of it.
Relating back to this thread, I have to conclude that because of this, and the fact that .net/.com makes up the 
majority of the registry this needs to be watched very carefully, and preemptive action taken should verisign make an 
anouncement, to suspend their registrar contract.


On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:54:15 +0200 (CEST)
"Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)" <henk () ripe net> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 Michael.Dillon () radianz com wrote:
>
> > In this day and age, people don't guess URLs anymore by sticking .com at
> > the end of a word so there is no longer any advantage to using a .com
> > domain name over a .biz or .info or .us.
>
> FWIW, I still do as it is faster than google.  I bet that that there are
> more people like me.
>
> Also, some browsers add ".com" if your URL doesn't end in ".something".
> Others cycle through a list of possibilities, but there ".com" is always
> the first on the list.
>
>
> Henk
>
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