Re: bit.ly urls

On Sunday, July 24, 2011 08:58:09 PM JC Dill wrote:

> Maybe I missed something, but AFAICT you haven't articulated what you
> think the "actual problem" is, aside from "how do we make money doing
> this?".  My position is you make money on some of the searches (when
> people register domains with you) and you link off to other registrars
> for the TLDs you don't have contracts to register with, but by searching
> ALL TLDs you become the "go to" place to search to see if a particular
> domain might be available in ANY TLD, and by doing so you gain business
> for the TLDs you register.

It's not that simple.  Kent has already addressed some issues, but I don't 
think anyone has addressed this one:

There's simply no authoritative database you can go to to find out of a 
registry has a geographic or political restriction in place.

Jeff

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