[146] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walter O. Haas)
Tue Aug 1 20:19:10 1995
To: nanog@merit.edu, haas@xmission.xmission.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Aug 1995 10:11:30 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 18:16:28 -0600
From: "Walter O. Haas" <haas@xmission.com>
My thinking has evolved away from geographically based names... yes I
know that trademarks, DBAs and so forth are registered by political
jurisdiction which currently means geography, but 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.
Just my $0.02 worth... -- Walt
