dotPH

Date: Sunday, December 15, 2002 3:58 PM +0000
Subject: Re: Re: Poll Answer
From: Sleepless_in_Seattle@anonymous.ph

Emil Avancena wrote:

>e@e.com writes:
>>How do you feel about having a new second level .ph domain that will be
>>exclusively for use by individuals?
>>
>>A: Not sure what "second level" means.
>
>it means a domain such as per.ph or ako.ph -- or something else that
>denotes use by an individual (as opposed to .net.ph for networks or org.ph
>for organizations).
>
>so edgar could get edgar.ako.ph, for example, and his e-mail address could
>be mail@edgar.ako.ph
>>
>>P.S. please fix you form field because when I just didn't fill up the
>>email field, it gave me an error and it didn't retain this message I
>>typed when I went back. so I had to type it all over again, which I
>>found quite irritating.
>>
>thanks for letting us know. it's been fixed and shouldn't happen again.
>>
>
>

It is nice to have second level though you have to consider your price. Other countries sell ccTLD between $8.95 to $10 /yr only. If you want .PH to be recognize and use by our countrymen, do something about your price scheme. The .PH is not .COM domains and will never be in .com domain success.

The .uk, .us, .de and other ccTLD domains offers between $8.95 to $10 /year registration. They also paid ICANN for $6 /domains as you do. They still earn revenue because of quantity of registration.

I highly recommend that you market .ph, .com.ph, .net.ph, .org.ph, .mil.ph and .edu.ph and don't create additonal second level of sub domains. The project of .NET was failed .e.g .sex, .sale, etc.

Again, adjust your pricing scheme to be acceptable by students, ordinary worker in Manila, Philippines and allow 1 year registration. Maybe .PH registrar executive management need to wakeup and re-assess the domain business again. We are not in dot com buzz anymore.

My view,
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