[plug] [OT] domain name registration

[Russ Powers]

Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:41, Russ Powers wrote:
> 
> 
>>Sad fact is most people just type your name with .com on the end. So you 
>>  it's usually a good idea to get the .com and .com.au if you can.
> 
> 
> All too true. Of course, even if you want the '.com' (just to work
> around morons, you understand) there'll be a squatter there who wants
> some ridiculous sum of money for the domain. Anyway - take the example

That's for sure. I've run into that before. That's why these days I grab 
the .com if it's available. Truth is, I've never gotten a .com to offset 
my .com.au. They've all been taken.


> of the POST. How many 'POST Newspapers' must there be in the world?!?
> We'd have to set up postnewspapers.com as an index page to point to
> everybody's real websites.
> 
> To be honest, most people come to use by google and MSN - probably
> automated keyword searches done by browsers. To the point, in fact,
> where I suspect many people do a search every time they want to see a
> site - rather than bookmarking it or remembering the address. Possibly
> because they don't understand about site addresses or bookmarks -
> *sigh*.
> 
> 
>>What about companies that do business all over the world?
> 
> 
> Ideally, '.com' and the other TLDs should be for internationally
> operating organisations. If you run a company that only operates in one
> country, get a ccTLD subdomain. 

What a ccTLD?

> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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