RE: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 08:43 PM 8/23/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > An important part of modern advertising includes the domain
> > name.  Having
> > to CHANGE the domain name is, therefore, a source of customer
> > confusion.  What worked yesterday doesn't work today.  Given
> > the semantic
> > component to domain names, changing an established domain name hurts
> > established customer association.
>
>All I can say Dave is that you're wrong. The actual domain name is 
>becoming less of a factor. Just look at the ASK.COM site. It's advertised 
>and branded as "Ask Jeeves" yet the URL is 
><http://www.ask.com>http://www.ask.com. The marketing folks know about the 
>problems and are adjusting accordingly.

Gosh, Roeland.  It's so nice to hear that all those domain names on 
billboards and business cards are irrelevant, not mention the many millions 
of embedded URLs on eb pages.

So, yes, thank you for your expert assessment.

d/

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