Re: new domain names

At 07:43 PM 3/28/01 -0600, Susan Vollmer wrote:
>Although I don't have any information on the .info names, I personally 
>prefer .com when available because it's easier for people to 
>remember.  Even when I know a group is a non-profit organization, I always 
>type .com out of habit if I'm doing it from memory.  Sometimes .com is not 
>available so another choice is made.

I'm not going to jump into the new name fray mainly because of the .com 
default. I registered IllinoisWildlife.org and their officers couldn't find 
it -- they were looking for .com.

I do choose the .org for organizations simply because search engines are 
really watching submissions and, so far, .orgs that are /truly/ 
organizations don't seem to be adversely affected. Yes, I probably should 
register them as a dot-com and redirect to the dot-org, but then there's 
this little finger shaking at me in my head -- it's not a dot-com, you know 
it's not -- well, I still think dot-com is the default.

I don't know if it was this list or another one, but there was a woman who 
did a web site for a car dealership. She /told/ the site owner that 
auto.com (for example) was taken and he insisted on auto.net -- well, guess 
where all his customers went :-(

Well, now I've gone and done it -- guess I'll have to talk to them about a 
dot-com?

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