Shown below are the ~50 names active in the .VI TLD DNS. It is unclear if this is all of the names "registered" because some people could claim that unlisted names also exist. If we assume there are no unlisted names, then the "owners" of the 50 names below are the "stakeholders" for the .VI TLD. The .VI TLD is a good TLD to use for discussion purposes because people can get their hands around 50 stakeholders as opposed to 2,000,000+ owners in .COM. There are at least five known uses of the .VI TLD: 1. .VI - United States Virgin Islands 2. .VI - Virgin Islands 3. .VI Text Editor Users 4. .VI Roman Numeral for 6 5. .VI - Very Intelligent or Very Important (short for VIP) If you take all of the names below and apply .VI to the right side and a WWW to the left side, you can start to classify the names below into the above five categories. For example, WWW.ALEXIS.VI. Which of the above five categories does that fall into ?....and most importantly, does it matter ? ALEXIS AMCUP AMENT AQUAMAN ARMOUR BCPHOTO BUSHTEA BVIMALL BXICARIBBEAN CAROLLEE CHARTERBOAT CO CROIX DAVIDJONES DIUSVI FANTASIA HOTELBOYNES ISLANDVIDEO IYC JNET JOHN LOCATION MARRIOTT MARRIOTT-FR MARRIOTT-MS MORRETT OCTAGON PISSARRO PRISCO ROLEXREGATTA ROTARY ROYALCARIBBEAN SANDDOLLAR SHIPS SOCCER-MASTERS ST-CROIX ST-JOHN ST-THOMAS STCROIX STJOHN STTHOMAS SUNREALTY THOMAS TRADEWINDS VISIT WEDUS WINDSURFING WSTA YACHTS ZBVI ===== As the 2 letter TLDs begin to join the other generic TLDs or vice versa, the market and marketing forces will help to define what a TLD means to people. No matter what it means, the <SLD>.TLD owners are the stakeholders and they have a right an responsibility to make sure that their TLD administration is handled in the manner they prefer. Their collective voice should be used to guide the direction the TLD takes. Let their voices be heard. Whomever they are... -------- Logged at Fri May 1 11:52:21 MET DST 1998 ---------