I’ve seen a few threads like this before, and will respond as I have in the past. While it is true that it is sometimes hard to obtain the 2nd level name you want in the best TLD for your purposes, I think this extension thing is getting out of hand. If you make the internet too complex to use because there are dozens of commonly used extensions in every country, then overall popularity of the net in the user community will decline, which will be bad for all concerned.

I think a far sounder approach would be to have some extensions open for parking and reselling (such as is currently the case with .com), and others have busniness use and/or nexus requirements (to prevent so much speculation that nobody can obtain good domains without paying too high a price; example: .biz). We actually have this dual approach now, but I can’t honestly say that it is working very well. Although it may sound odd to hear this from a domain reseller, my opinion is that we probably need further restrictions to make good domains affordably available to those that are really going to use them. Extensions without business use requirements could possibly have limits on how many domains any one individual or domain reselling company can own at one time. This would strike a compromise between free enterprise and fairness to ultimate site owners.

You don’t need 1,000 Fans to get your own username.

Your Facebook account must be registered before June 9 as the only criteria.

Mike

Cheers,
@marismith

Like when it says Bing.com ;-p

All success
Dr.Mani