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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/16/2018 7:58 AM, Vittorio Bertola
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<blockquote type="cite">Il 16 gennaio 2018 alle 16.23 Asmus
Freytag <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:asmusf@ix.netcom.com"><asmusf@ix.netcom.com></a> ha scritto: <br>
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<p><span style="font-family: Candara;">I note:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Candara;">This is something I did
expect from the day I first saw that application. The TLD is
so long and cumbersome that I've always wondered about the
motivation to register it for any other purpose than
effectively a stand-lone domain....</span></p>
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<p>Basically I agree, but I also note that "long and cumbersome"
is a subjective, cultural evaluation, and for German speakers</p>
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like myself<br>
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<p> those words are not as long or cumbersome as they are for
everyone else. </p>
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but while you could make "Fußbodenschleifmaschinenverleih" (an oft
photographed name on a store front) an IDN, or even a TLD, it would
still be silly to do so.<br>
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<p>The real "cumbersome element" in these and many new TLDs, IMHO,
is the idea of using full natural language words rather than
codes and abbreviations; this is something that takes a while to
get used to, and before you do you will instinctively
perceive these TLDs as "weird".<br>
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A long word like that is still cumbersome - at some point it becomes
silly to try to access it by typing - when that occurs, the name no
longer need to be descriptive and complete, because you will access
it via search.<br>
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In my example, the full name of the business would include the
location or the owners name (or the form of business) to be unique,
so now you have a non-unique but cumbersome handle. <br>
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Perhaps there is a reason why <br>
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were the only Latin-based IDN TLDs at all in the first round.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
A./<br>
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