Michael Pappas wrote:

] Smaller business feel that they need to protect there name on the internet
] but a the moment find that they are hit with notices say that they should
] get every level under the sun... .com, .net, .com.au, .biz, .bz, .mx, .tv
] etc etc... the marketing push makes these people feel inadequate in the
] DNS.

If you are looking at things from a "protection" point of view, I would
have thought having more 2LDs is worse - it just means more space that
you feel you have to `protect' or someone else might register it. 

That is unless you are looking at it from the point of view of someone
whose only interest is making money by selling "protection" - then the
more space there is that registrants can be persuaded that they should
`protect' the more money you can make by spreading FUD.

This is one of the key risks of adding more open 2LDs - registrants
can be frightened into paying money for yet another domain that they
neither need nor want, because they are trying to `protect' the domain
from somebody else registering it.

] The perception that gTLD and ccTLD, espically in our domain space, exist
] together and correlate for this protection is an ingrain thought.

Then perhaps registrars and resellers should increase their efforts
to educate people that gTLDs and ccTLDs are *not* connected.

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 David Keegel <djk&#167;cyber.com.au>  URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
Cybersource P/L: Unix Systems Administration and TCP/IP network management