[ILUG] Finally, www.WhatEverYouBloodyWellWant.ie

[Caolan McNamara]

On 18.02.00, 11:41:22, John Allen <john.allen at oc2.com> wrote regarding 
Re: [ILUG] Finally, www.WhatEverYouBloodyWellWant.ie:


> Caolan McNamara wrote:

> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >
> >
> > So I still have to register .com names if I want a domain, I'd rather
> > have picked up an .ie, but obviously I haven't a "legal claim" to
> > anything except the clothes I'm wearing. I was always a bit annoyed
> > originally at groups and companies polluting the .com and .org
> > namespaces rather than their own local domain. But its painfully

> So why the f*ck don't they just do a .org.ie .co.ie .nom.ie 
etc........

> That way if you want a .co.ie you had better have a company with the 
same
> name.

It would have been nice alright, I imagine that it is far too late now 
to do this ? Of course noone ever expected the amount of domains that 
would be requested or desired. I expect that we will see the rather 
cringe worthy toplevel names of .shop .store .CornerShopOnTheCoast, or 
some other new thematic toplevel groupings before subdivisions of 
existing toplevel names.

One of the nice things about .com names is that you come in on an 
equal basis as established companies. Very egalitarian, with good 
content www.whatever.com the one man pre-startup can compete directly 
with www.established.com. Very hard to take www.mcnamara-9870.ie as 
seriously as www.aib.ie.

C.