Does anyone disagree that the availability of .ws domains is pointless?
Perhaps in an attempt to generate revenues like Italy (.it), Tuvalu (.tv), Montenegro (.md), and Tonga (.to) did, Samoa (formerly Western Samoa) made available this ccTLD for general registration (that is, residency is not a requirement). Global Domains International Ltd. represents the TLD on behalf of Samoa and markets it as Your Internet Address for Life, essentially an all-purpose alternative to .com.
I'm of the opinion that the last thing the world needs is another one-TLD-for-all-your-needs. However, for the last five years I have been registering .ws domains for the purpose of web services. It's a nice way to distinguish websites-for-people from webservices-for-computers. You can even create subdomains for types of services, such as schema.example.ws, soap.example.ws, wsdl.example.ws, rest.example.ws, etc.
All the cool kids are doing it. Pass it on... it might even help out a country where the GDP per capita is about 1/10th of Canada or the U.S.A.
