Slashdot Mirror

They made a terrible, terrible decision with selling gTLDs

They made a terrible decision selling and TLDs! Having ".com, .org, .net" etc didn't add anything of value; it just added confusion.

This website should be
https://slashdot/

Google should be
https://google/

Microsoft should be
https://microsoft/

- simpler, easier, and less confusion with other sites. I'm not saying that "." shouldn't be allowed but it should be treated no different to any other character in the URL. The different TLD just made it easier for website squatters to have more places to squat.

You don't have to add a second-level. Not only that, but using www for a web prefix has fallen out of favor.

You're more likely to see something like http://google/ at some point.

That's not a TLD. Using a TLD would mean http://google/

Aren't they rather antiquated? We don't need them - what about http://google?

I've never really been clear on the need for TLDs in the first place. Why wouldn't I want to just go to http://tech.slashdot/story/ or http://google/ or http://whitehouse/ ? What use does slapping a ".com" (or at random, ".org" instead) on the end really have?

Obviously, they have the opportunity to clean their url.

http://google/

This gives them the opportunity to move the query string to the sub domain position, like:

http://docs.google/
http://adsense.google/
http://reader.google/

With some DNS wild cards, they could even move variables to sub domains.

Changing their address to google.google is a bit redundant.

But mapping http://google/ to their search engine would make a lot of sense.

I propose removing the TLDs. For instance Google's URL would be http://google./

It should be strait-forward, remove all .COM entries to separate the queries by where the server is located.

If I wanted Google, there's nothing that should keep from http://google./ The same is for GMail. You see, ICANN wants every country to participate in the international naming scheme and get money for squabbles between their fee-dom of selling the 3-digit registry, when it's absolutely ludicrous that your DNS requests should even leave the tier of your ISP.

Of'course the whole setup is to favor commerce rather than network proficiency. That's why the Internet is a giant joke for politicians to make-believe they can regulate, and is why every website is an administrative failure because of the pseudo-politics involved in the dellusion of its regulation.

or.... http://google/

Yes, but really, do we even need TLDs at all anymore, if they're going to allow anyone with enough cash to register a TLD, why not just do away with them altogether.

http://slashdot/
http://google/
http://microsoft/
etc.

Realistically this would be better than having them register "http://*.google/", "http://*.microsoft/", etc. and would basically achieve the same purpose, TLDs were originally made to keep things organised, clearly they no longer want that.

Of course this would probably cause problems if you have "foo.com" and "foo.org" fighting over "foo"

If Google actually registered "google" as TLD, why should they put subdomains like "search" under it? The most obious way to reach google then would be http://google/

have yahoo at http://yahoo/
have yahoo search at http://search.yahoo/

* http://mobi.yahoo/
* http://google/
* http://developers.slashdot/
* http://hardware.slashdot/comments.pl

Would be better imo.

If the .org or .co.uk part is essentially arbitrary (I have .org, .com and .net all pointing at the same site just so that someone else doesn't grab them), then wouldn't it make way more sense to just leave it out?

http://slashdot/
http://google/
http://apple/
http://microsoft/
etc..

I found out on this site a friend sent me a link to
Imap for Gmail