RE: Second level for Name domain

From: Robert L Mathews (lists@tigertech.com)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 14:37:15 EST


At 2/10/04 10:37 AM, James M Woods wrote:

>We have no immediate plans to offer second level .name domains at this time.
>Market demand has proven less than worthwhile with respect to .name.
>
>(Scary fact) We have way more resellers than we do .name domains registered.
>That is not a viable indicator of that TLD's success. Should demand increase
>we will reconsider, however I am not inclined to devote further resources to
>this TLD since the ROI is deep in the negative.

With any luck, this episode will teach new registry operators that
confusing options dramatically hurt their sales. If they'd just
introduced ".name" as an unrestricted TLD in the first place, like .biz
or .info, I suspect it would have been equally popular. Now it's tainted
by a reputation for being different and confusing.

-- 
Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies      http://www.tigertech.net/

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." -- Darwin



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