Re:Canon to begin acquisition of the ".canon" Top-Level Doma...
by blogimus on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @01:41AM
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I agree, and as I said, it really doesn't matter. The vast majority of people are going to get what they need through Google, and to a lessor extent, the other search engines.
Re:Canon to begin acquisition of the ".canon" Top-Level Doma...
by codexon on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @01:42AM
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It has little value for users/consumers (i.e., won't remember if they want canon.com or canon.canon).
Actually if you buy an arbitrary top level domain, there will be no more .com.
Instead it will be .google, .apple or .hackernews
It has little value for users/consumers (i.e., won't remember if they want canon.com or canon.canon). It has little value for businesses, because it means more time and money monitoring for domain squatting and trademark infringement. It provides yet another playing field for scammers and other predators.
The only benefit is to the upper levels in the DNS hiearchy, gives them more revenue to perpetuate themselves and to come up with more user-hostile ideas.