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Originally Posted by MaguirePhD

2. The Internet wil expand but the use will become more parochial. As China and the sub-continent dominate the Internet, botique private Internets will sprout up specific to certain countries engendering a jingoistic approach.

I disagree. Your lack of vision is surprising for someone who claims to have a PHD. I suggest that you do a lot more reading about Google and what they are doing in regards to automatic translation. Here's why. The entire goal of Google translate is to make all internet sites, regardless of language, viewable in the language of the viewer. The only reason people stick within their ccTLD now is because of the language barriers. When Google solves that problem, country codes are no longer going to mean as much. IMO, the future of the Internet is limitless, not parochial. The borders are going to fall, it is just a matter of when.

This, however, doesn't have anything to do with a boycott of new TLDs. I still haven't seen any argument in here that makes the case for a boycott other than, "my money is in COM". Is that the only reason to boycott?

If you own download.com, and download.msn & download.web come online and become successful, does the traffic for download.com go up or down? My guess is up. IMO, the value of the COM goes up with the success of other TLDs. So, why boycott?