[ga-roots] FW: Dot-Antitrust anyone? fresh evidence

[Len Lindon <info@humanrights.com.au>]

Getting Out of Dot-Nowhere
By Joanna Glasner 
2:00 a.m. June 20, 2001
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,44625,00.html

> For folks who actually have Web addresses in alternative domains, a more
> pressing concern is not whether the sites will continue operating so much as
> whether anyone will visit them.
> 
> Since sites operated by alternate registries aren't on the Internet's central
> server, they're typically hard to access. More often than not, users trying to
> get to dot-shop or dot-travel end up receiving "server not responding"
> messages. 
> 
> Given those technical hurdles, low traffic figures weren't much of a surprise
...
> Largely through these efforts, New.net figures that its sites are accessible
> by about 35 percent of U.S. Internet users through at least one computer they
> operate. 
> 
> However, that still leaves out about two-thirds of the Web-using public. The
> two largest Internet service providers, AOL and MSN, for example, have yet to
> sign on to New.net's plan. On top of that, there are the countless individuals
> who get Internet access at work or school without a commercial ISP.

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