last week I've been meeting with consumer's club,
few of my friends asking why I'm always
saying WMC as learn IT portal.. why does using .com
instead of .my in WM ? favorite .my second level
domain name (2LD)?

does internet have the special regulation for
domain name using ??

diffcult to explain those with non
IT savvy themselves..

how does social network generates traffic from
such places like friendster..

Any idea on explain this easily ??

.com is synonymous with "global business". Even if you had a sweet stall in a night market, you'd still want a .com instead of a .my, unless your visitors are likely to be savvy enough to know "it's just a string of letters - the Internet doesn't know". It's ok for del.icio.us, their target market just sees the word. If you're buying e-books, you just see ".com = World Famous Business!"

Maybe one day the distinction won't be so deeply ingrained in people's minds. Maybe after the infamous ".my bubble"...

The Internet doesn't have any rules for who uses what domain names, but the top-level domain registrars sometimes do. MYNIC are fairly strict, but I doubt they're the most strict - they have offered 2nd level registration, after all.

I don't know about social networking sites, but I guess it's all about having a captive audience. The wikipedia article on MySpace attributes the rapid success of myspace to eUniverse's existing users and subscribers. I guess it's just like TV - the same people you know so much about, looking in every day. If you put an ad in front of them, Bingo!

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ohh okey..
appreciate that..