Re: [wg-c] .eu and the notion of regional TLDs

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 16:19 3/02/00 -0500, A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
>At 03:58 PM 2/3/00 , Jay Parker wrote:
>>that arena, and could utilize a regional designation to create social and
>>economic opportunities as a collective. There's really no debating the idea
>>that, in general, the region could use all the economic opportunity it can
>>get.
>
>Hi Jay,
>
>This is a poignant plea.  However, it also highlights
>the fact that EU and other regional TLDs are merely
>a species of generic TLD loosely associated with a
>political-economic organization brand.  Once an EU
>domain were denominated, non-discriminatory treatment
>would compel similar benefits to be accorded every
>other political economic association in the world.
>
>The dubious aspect of all this is whether it brings
>any additional benefits at all to those in the region
>concerned.   The only one it would seem to benefit
>is the organization involved.
>

Tony and Jay,

I could see clear benefits for registrants in a .eu TLD.
It is a regional identification for all those who might wish to identify
their on-line presence as European.
Depending on how "open" the registry is going to be, it could be a TLD for
individuals and companies from EU member states, but also from non-members
states, as long as they wish to identify their Domain as European.

It could be the TLD that becomes the success that .us did not.



--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  , founder  of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org  (or direct:) 
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