Re: UKNM: "cybersquatter"

[Tim.Hayward]

I must confess that this whole area fascinates me too. There seem to be huge

numbers of people speculating in this area which seems legally 'grey'.


What happened to the notion of a whole raft of new suffixes?


Above all, what happened to that rather quaint notion of 'Old Nick'

Negroponte

in 'Being Digital' - the thought that users aren't really interested in

remembering a phone number when the technology exists to call by name?


What if my (new broadband speed) browser did a sort of 'Ask Jeeves' fuzzy

search

when I typed in the beginning of the name, flashing up full pages instead of

URL

suggestions under the location bar?


Is anyone doing any HCI work around the notion of losing the URL altogether?


Now that companies are falling over each other to disassociate themselves

with

the term .com, perhaps it's time to do a Lord Lucan.... make the Earl

disappear

(sorry - couldn't resist it).


What do we reckon?



T



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