- From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 13:31:53 +0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
Walter Ian Kaye writes: | Hmm. What do you think of my domain name? I wanted "ni.com" (would have | made a nice Monty Python reference too), but some imaging company already | snagged it, and neither "natural" nor "innovations" has any well-known | abbreviation (natl = national). So, some are long simply because the short | ones have already been taken! Latecomer? The entire world can't sign up on | the first day of IANA, and many companies have not yet been born! Well, that's it! DNS names are quite limited in what they let you say (length, character set, ...), but it is possible to attach some semantics. I think the downfall of .com can probably be attributed to a combination of this and the perception that you don't have an Internet presence unless there is a www.<yourname>.com Walter - do any of these alternative "handles" appeal ? n.i.com (get into [a-z].com before the rush!) natural.innovations.com (s/-/./) 7.1.5.4.5.6.9.5.1.4.1.com (cf. tpc.int) Natural Innovations The last one looks quite nice to me, but there is the small matter of mapping it onto a DNS entry/entries... Cheerio, (and Happy New Year :-) Martin
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