[plug] [OT] domain name registration

[Russ Powers]

Senectus - wrote:
> "In my years of teaching people how to use the Internet, very few members
> of the public "just stick a .com on the end" - the reason that they
> don't, is because no-one has told them the rules of domain names and
> misinformation such as spread by you and others just perpetuates this."
> 
> Mate, in my experience most people on the net were not "educated" about 
> using anything "internet".
> The internet in "my opinion" (of which I'm entitled too ;-) ) is the 
> single largest collection of ignorant people in the world.

Ouch! I resemble that remark!  ;-)


> The fact is that many companies will try to obtain a .com basically 
> because it IS the most recognizable domain in the public eye. On the up 

You said it much better than I did.


> side.. the more this is abused the less true it will be, because .com 's 
> will run out and necessity will produce other very "publicly 
> visible/recognisable" domains.

I hope you are correct.

> 
> 
> Senectus
> 
> 
> 
> "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with 
> teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in 
> which we live."   - Peter Cochran
> 
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