Re: bit.ly urls

On 25/07/11 12:01 PM, Jeff Lasman wrote:
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> On Sunday, July 24, 2011 08:58:09 PM JC Dill wrote:
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> > Maybe I missed something, but AFAICT you haven't articulated what you
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> > think the "actual problem" is, aside from "how do we make money doing
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> > this?". My position is you make money on some of the searches (when
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> > people register domains with you) and you link off to other registrars
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> > for the TLDs you don't have contracts to register with, but by searching
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> > ALL TLDs you become the "go to" place to search to see if a particular
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> > domain might be available in ANY TLD, and by doing so you gain business
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> > for the TLDs you register.
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> It's not that simple. Kent has already addressed some issues, but I 
> don't think anyone has addressed this one:
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> There's simply no authoritative database you can go to to find out of 
> a registry has a geographic or political restriction in place.
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That would take someone manually going to each TLDs authoritative site 
and finding out what the restrictions are.  But that's doable.  It's not 
an insurmountable problem, there aren't THAT many TLDs.

This is what puzzles me about all the objections people are putting up 
to why this "wouldn't work" - they are not very big obstacles.  Yes, you 
need to have a system to prevent abuse but if you are registering .com 
you have that already.  Yes, you need to work out how you will send 
people to other TLD's registrars for domains you elect not to register 
directly.  Yes, you will need to get permission to do whois queries on 
behalf of the searchers for the TLDs you aren't going to register 
directly, but if you have a good anti-abuse process in place this 
shouldn't pose any serious difficulties since the end result is that you 
will be sending them customers when people decide to purchase a new 
domain in their TLD.  For any TLD with an open purchase policy, they 
have every reason to cooperate with a venture like this, as long as you 
have a good system to prevent abuse.

For years I posted about how I was mystified that nobody was putting in 
tool and parts (rack nuts, crimpers, cross-over cables, etc.) vending 
machines in colos.  Finally:

http://gearomat.com/

jc


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