On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:36:38PM -0500, jesse wrote:
So I think we should move to a simple two level system.
oxford.uk.openguides.org london.uk.openguides.org manchester.uk.openguides.org manchester.us.openguides.org
So, would that be Manchester NH, Manchester, MA or one of the other Manchesters?
Which is kind of where the discussion got to last time, and then got lost.
I personally am not a big fan of even 4 level domains, and adding a 5th would be particularly annoying. In addition, I think that most of the guides represent a larger area than Manchester, MA would. Looking through the Manchester result, Manchester, NH is the only one with population (In the US) greater than 20,000 (at 109k), with most results being somewhere between 1 and 5 thousand residents.
Cambridge doesn't need its own guide, nor does Brookline, nor probably even Mancester By the Sea. They can be included in the Boston guide without a problem.
I'd personally be in favor of larger cities - Boston, Chicago, SF, LA, NOLA, Miami, things like that - getting a higher level domain, and cities under 200,000 people or so being put under a state domain.
But that may just be because I live in Boston, and am biased :)