RE: [wg-c] capital idea

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 11:34 PM 8/22/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > Behalf Of Dave Crocker, Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 10:00 PM
> > ...advertisers.  A registry locks in its end-users.
> >
> > Hence the systemic leverage is quite different.
>
>... and the relevance of this point? Renaming is simply a matter of
>changing the DNS master file and some parameter changes on the servers.

Given how many times the difficulties surrounding renaming have been 
discussed in the last two years, I'm surprised they are being missed 
here.  As I noted in another message, tell Amazon.com or Microsoft that 
nit's trivial for them to change their domain name...

>be more common-place. IOW, the lock-in argument is yet another
>red-herring.

I would strongly encourage you to learn more about the real world of domain 
name use, both in terms of marketing and operations issues.

d/

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