RE: UKNM: RE: dot-TVs

[Beren Money]

Having just conducted a brief straw poll in telly land, no one I spoke to

seems to either a) have heard of .tv  or b) give a monkey's about it.


The problem with this continuous worrying about having the right URL suffix

is that it is terribly short sighted. Why? Because in the 'convergence'

revolution, vusers (ho ho) aren't going to find content in the same way:


1. Most people will be accessing entertainment based content through walled

garden services offered by cable companies, sky, on digital or whomever.

They will never even see a URL.


2. EPGs (in a tv or web incarnation) mean that no-one pays attention to

channels (this includes URLs) but instead look for programme brands. You

look for 'Friends' not 'Channel 4' - effectively making the broadcaster

irrelevant to your choice (hence the recent increased use of permanent

on-screen idents).


Cheers,


Beren.


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Sent: 24 October 2000 16:23

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Subject: UKNM: RE: dot-TVs



Richard wrote:

There are (24x24x24) 13824 different www.godado.xxx out there that could be

created.


JB Writes:

Er - I don't think that there are this many... I mean, not every .xxx is

available (the amount that actually are around is in it's early hundreds).

as for the .xxx.yyy there are a few more of these. I think that there has to

be an element of sanity involved. We have bought the .coms and .co.uks for

our domain names and have stopped there.


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