The internet is a new technology - it has been in general use for less than ten years. A few individuals will be in the right place at the right time to make a lot of money - I intend to be one of them.

Yes there is a marketing hump to be overcome - there has to be a strategy to cross this hump. It would require combined efforts of SOME the registrars and SOME investers having foresight and a vested interest in the concept.

You said it yourself - .biz .name .pro are not a success because as you say they are not .com - E-domains extends the range of .com by at least one third - ( I got that quote from an Icann registrar - one of a number looking at this concept, there are significant financial advantages for the Icann registrars to back this system. I have been in correspondence with a number of them0.

2. E-domains are visually chic. For instance compare with .name which looks wooden beside the e-domain alturnative

3. The domain market did slump - because it over heated - and people got their fingers burnt. However that is not a reason to be despondent; underlying trends are now upwards - addresses will become in short supply. This is another attractive solution

5. E-domains is a bridge between the world of e-mail (used by your "masses") and the world of websites (used by geeks in the know). There are ten times as many users of e-mail addresses as website addesses - these users can be hosted across the divide from being e-mailers only into e-mailers with web site facilities

6. E-domains bring into play the possibilty of more intuitive use of autoresponders - the more imaginative use of autoresponders would give website designers opportunities to create more interesting user friendly sites.

I could go on - but this forum only alows 1000 words per message

Julian