.Mac

[Bo Ahlberg]

Hey, have you seen the flood of new Top-level domains coming out? Shoot, if
Apple walked up and offered a reasonable contribution there'd be a TLD for
.Mac faster than your head could spin...

Bo...

On 7/15/02 6:29 PM, "Dan Lowe" <dan at tangledhelix.com> wrote:

> Previously, Michael Brewer wrote:
>> ICANN doesn't need to. There are plenty of alternative DNS servers
>> providing TLDs. All Apple would need to do is include support for those
>> DNS servers in Mac OS X.
>> 
>> If they do this, it's the only way .Mac won't be a lame name.
> 
> If they want to lock all non-Mac users out of .mac, including Mac users who
> are currently sitting at a non-Mac system, that might be okay.  Otherwise,
> alternative-DNS providers just don't have good coverage - if they had
> visibility to 20% of users, I'd be surprised.  I'd guess more like 10-15%.
> Which would be of fairly limited usefulness (or appeal) IMO.
> 
> -dan