[governance] Help create the .nyc Internet space for New York and New Yorkers

[David Goldstein]

Sylvia,

I'd ask how many people have any understanding of what .cc, .nf, .nu and a myriad of other small ccTLDs are? Internet users generally understand that the ccTLD for the country they come from often indicates the web site, or email or whatever, has some link to their country, and I'd guess that many would understand what .de, .uk and a few others would mean.

So a city TLD, for example, would be perfect in creating a link to a locality. A myriad of TLDs would probably be no different to the myriad of small ccTLDs that currently exist. I mean, how many people know what country .ma, .ba or .bi are the ccTLDs for?

That said, Peter Dambier's earlier comment that "Today the ccTLD's are useless", along with the rest of his posting, is utter garbage. Tell that to the registrants of the 12 million .de domain names to begin with. There is plenty of research this comment is the utter garbage I mention. He also fails to understand the reasoning behind .aero, even if this doesn't change whether it is useful or not. Nor does he understand the growth in accessing the internet through mobile devices. Doesn't mean there is a need for .mobi or a better way to go about this though, but in 5-10 years time, mobile internet may overtake other forms of access to the web, and a means of differentiating websites for access by mobile devices may be, or may not be, useful. And .xxx made no sense. Purely from a censorship point of view.

Cheers
David

----- Original Message ----
From: Sylvia Caras <sylvia.caras at gmail.com>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Sent: Monday, 3 March, 2008 7:42:32 AM
Subject: Re: [governance] Help create the .nyc Internet space for New York and New Yorkers

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Dirk Krischenowski | dotBERLIN
<krischenowski at dotberlin.de> wrote:
>
>  Your opinion of a pleasant small number of TLDs is a very single one.

I don't have strong feelings about .nyc versus .nyc.us or other versions.

I'm curious how ordinary people understand the web places that they
visit.  I read the URL, mentally differentiate between .com and .org,
sometimes visit whois to see the names behind a site, ...  I sometimes
want to know the commercial or political interest.    I guess that's
probably not what most people do.

Here, I'm wanting to separate out the technical part of this, which of
course creates boundaries for the conversation, and look at naming
from the point of view of ordinary people, children first coming on
line, people not at ease with English or this character set, ...
That's where I think the governance aspect comes in.  Much design
today is wonderfully adapted to use.  And much is dreadful.  So I'm
wanting to think wisely from the end-users point of view.

Sylvia
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