Thank you!
Maria Reyes-McDavis

I think browsers will continue to develop. I think one of the browsers “offers” a drop-down list (com, net, org) for type-ins. Likewise — I expect there to be a time when “most searched info” will resolve to http://most-searched.info. And I also expect that Chinese will at some point develop search engines such that a search for “职位 net” will resolve to 职位.net (that’s something the Google guys apparently still haven’t figured out).

Note that the fact that there are “competing languages” on the Internet will increasingly complicate the “penisland” issue. In the “long run” (when we’re all dead) people will no longer say they “speak German” or “speak French” but rather that they “surf .DE” or “surf .FR”.

Finally, it’s important to think about which community will actually congregate at a site (note that I differentiate between sites — the address / location [i.e. the "content" that goes into the location field] and websites [the content that is navigated to as a result of "entering" the location]). People interested in commercial hotels may very will visit hotels.com, people interested in sneezing networks may visit sneezing.net, but what is the “community focus” of say meanwhile.org?

nmw