[8929] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NEWDOM: RE: Read this...Re: offtopic for NANOG - do not read
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Mulligan)
Mon Apr 28 13:22:33 1997
To: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@Unir.Corp>
cc: Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>,
Geoff White <geoffw@precipice.v-site.net>,
Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"newdom@ar.com" <newdom@ar.com>, Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Apr 1997 15:50:44 CDT."
<01BC5259.9ADD69A0@webster.unety.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 10:47:35 -0600
From: Geoff Mulligan <geoff@mulligan.com>
JimFleming@Unir.Corp said:
> People and companies can now register in other domains than .COM.
>
> Why would a company want a .COM domain when they can have something
> more expressive ?
For one reason, they may have registered their domain quite a while ago and
spent millions in collateral advertising for that domain and it would be
foolish to try to switch.
Second, the millions of browsers out there support .com by default! You don't
have to type in WWW.NETSOL.COM but just NETSOL and the browser will prepend
WWW and append .COM for you.
geoff
