[ncdnhc-discuss] About Marketing Practices in .ORG

[Dave Crocker]

At 10:05 PM 12/27/2001 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:28:58PM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
> > WHAT IS THE NEED FOR MARKETING?
>
>.ORG has never been marketed. COM has been marketed.

Since when did .org have the task of competing with .com?

That is, after all,the argument you are making:  .com has marketed, so .org 
must also be marketed.  However, I hope folks note that that is not, in 
fact, an argument that provides any real explanation.

Why should actions for .com dictate actions for .org?

Again, Milton, what is the NEED to market .org?  What benefit accrues to 
USERS of .org, other than higher costs?

Or, perhaps, you are instead focusing on benefits for the .org REGISTRY, 
since the marketing would produce higher sales?


>ORG has been treated as something a business
>might want to register to protect the exclusivity of
>their COM name.

oh, well.  now THAT is certainly a wonderful reason to market .org:  make 
it an echo of .com.  THAT would serves the interests of non-commercial 
organizations really well, wouldn't it, Milton?

(And, by the way, you have so far racked up a score of at least two 
arguments vastly more silly than the one from Kent you criticized.  Thanks 
for the effort!)

d/

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