I am not sure if this this is the appropriate group for my question,
however, I interested in other's opinions about this.

I have seen a few .US domain extension where they are using the .US
as
part of the name itself. For example: auctionsurpl.us


Obviously there is no real value to the domain name itself (sell on
ebay or Aftermarket). COM is the Cadillac not .US. However, I sort
of find this pretty clever.


Any thoughts?

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On 2007-05-13, Dean <noreply@coveyaccounting.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if this this is the appropriate group for my question,
> however, I interested in other's opinions about this.
>
> I have seen a few .US domain extension where they are using the .US
^^^^^^^^^

The proper term is ``top-level domain'', or TLD. Please don't confuse the
domain hierarchy with dos filesystem type file extentions. If only because
the domain system allows many more subdomains than just ``domain.tld''.


> as
> part of the name itself. For example: auctionsurpl.us
>
> Obviously there is no real value to the domain name itself (sell on
> ebay or Aftermarket). COM is the Cadillac not .US. However, I sort
> of find this pretty clever.
>
> Any thoughts?

I personally don't find it particularly easy to read, obvious, or
clever-making. But perhaps others think better of the practice. Note
that many more TLDs can be (and are) used this way.

The value of a domain is only what people are willing to pay for it.
Whichever is the 'cadillac' depends on where you are and what business
you're in. Since most people don't know any better, .com will remain
favoured for a while. Given the widespread non-use of the hierarchical
features of DNS I've been tempted to propose to just do away with
all that and go back to a flat namespace, so we can concentrate on
optimizing our systems for that. Then again, I don't know what the
future will bring either.


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