my $0.02 worth ...
How about being ahead of the pack & go for www.link.info ?
It suits LINK's underlying area of interest - access & quality of
information... it's international ... it's new ("progressive"? maybe ...)
According to
http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article/0,,8_871391,00.html
Companies Move To Register .INFO Domains
By Thor Olavsrud
With the Sunrise Period for trademark and service mark holders to register
their marks in the new .INFO domain slated to end on Monday, Aug. 27,
Afilias Thursday claimed that registrations to date mark .INFO as the first
"truly global" domain.
Afilias is a consortium of registrars selected by the Internet Corp. for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to serve as the registry for .INFO. The
Sunrise Period was initiated on July 25, 2001, in order to give trademark
and service mark holders a chance to protect their marks before the
registry is opened to the general public on Sept. 12, 2001.
The U.S. accounted for only 39 percent of .INFO registrations. The top
three markets outside the U.S. were Germany (which accounted for 20 percent
of registrations), Switzerland (7 percent) and the U.K. (6 percent). On the
regional level, the U.S. and Canada accounted for 40 percent of
registrations, and Europe accounted for 52 percent. Another 5 percent came
from Asia, 3 percent from Latin America and 1 percent from Australia.
One more Australian registration would boost the percentage!
Cheers
Jeff
James Polley <James@jigsaw.com.au>@www.anu.edu.au on 23/08/2001 05:15:31 PM
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To: "'link@www.anu.edu.au'" <link@www.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: FW: [LINK] Link's German offshoot
-----Original Message-----
From: James Polley
Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2001 5:14 PM
To: 'Rachel Polanskis'
Subject: RE: [LINK] Link's German offshoot
*ahem*
Personally, I'd rather go with .asn - it's somewhat more descriptive of
what
link is, and better, there are automated online tools for dealing with the
domain - it's somewhat faster than having to email the venerable Mr Elz and
waiting till he is in the mood for dealing with things....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rachel Polanskis [mailto:rachel@excitehome.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2001 3:45 PM
> To: Galen Townson
> Cc: 'Chirgwin Richard'; 'link@www.anu.edu.au'
> Subject: RE: [LINK] Link's German offshoot
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Galen Townson wrote:
>
> > eh? apply for a .au ccTLD domain, eg. link.org.au?
> >
> > what do the policies say - ftp://munnari.oz.au/netinfo/ORG.AU-policy
> >
> > link.com.au is already taken by Link Telecommunications
> > http://aunic.net/cgi-bin/whois.aunic?link.com.au
> >
> > does 'link' even need protecting in this manner?
> > http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/link/ is enough for me and should
> be enough
> > to protect the 'brand' within this sector.
>
> Since we are non-profit organisation, "The Link Institute", is
> link.org.au more appropriate?
>
> There's no entries for it either!!!!!!!
> Go fer it....
>
>
> rachel
>
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