[149] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Tue Aug 1 22:10:02 1995
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 19:04:36 -0800
To: "Walter O. Haas" <haas@xmission.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
haas@xmission.xmission.com
From: 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
