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  1. Re:The math holds up by dissy · · Score: 1 · on Pay up or Sell up, ICANN Tells Failing New gTLD (domainincite.com)

    The thing I'm wondering about is what happens to the people who did order the domains? What happens to the registry when the company behind it completely disappears?

    ICANN auctions off the TLD to other TLD operators to be maintained, presumably only other TLD operators in good standing and with a good history at running one.

    This happened last year with the .fan and .fans gTLDs
    http://domainincite.com/22982-centralnic-now-managing-failing-fan-and-fans

    So at a technical level the TLD continues to function for domain holders, but legally it is with a new registrar company, new terms, maybe new pricing.

  2. Re:What's hard [Re:I wonder how long it will be... by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 1 · on 'Modern AI is Good at a Few Things But Bad at Everything Else' (wired.com)

    Learning to make a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich out of what is in the refrigerator: now that's hard.

    It's also sexual harassment if you ask a woman to do that. http://domainincite.com/20201-...

  3. Enough already with the TLDs by TroII · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Africa Gets Its Own Web Address (bbc.com)

    I wish them luck, but I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to be creating yet another top-level domain.

    For example, a mobile phone company could create mobile.africa to show its Africa-wide presence, or a travel company could set up travel.africa.

    So they'll sell off a few hundred generic words to speculators, but I predict few others will be buying in. Many of the new gTLDs created over the past couple of years are either shutting down, or jacking up domain prices into the multi-hundred dollar per year range just to stay in operation. Keeping a TLD alive isn't cheap, and it turns out there's not much demand for all of this namespace after all. When you can't amortize your TLD's infrastructure cost across millions of customers, you wind up having to price each domain so high that nobody's going to buy one.

  4. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Interviews: Ask Lawrence Lessig About His Mayday PAC

    Oh, shit, again. Don't know how I missed L'Oreal's withdrawal of their .matrix bid.

    Still, or so, I remain to be convinced that I can't find better uses for my money than giving to someone else to play politics with.

  5. Re:Hmm... by rs79 · · Score: 1 · on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses

    IANA says you can't. Courts have said otherwise.

    http://www.circleid.com/posts/...

    http://www.internetgovernance....

    http://domainincite.com/3936-m...

  6. Steam here means a division of Valve by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Urban Terror Code Stolen
    In these days of conglomerate companies whose right hand can't tell what the left is doing, it's common in some circles to use a product name to refer to the part of the company that makes that product. Xbox, for example, is a common name among the gaming press for the Entertainment and Devices division of Microsoft. Sony Computer Entertainment has occasionally referred to itself as PlayStation in the "Dear PlayStation" ads. "Steam", for example, may refer to the division of Valve that develops its app store and game support services, as opposed to the "Source" division that develops games but can't count to three. And sometimes, a company even changes its name to that of its product line, like what BlackBerry did at the beginning of 2013 to avoid more "RIM jobs" jokes.

    Care to cite an example for your second statement?

    If Steam wants to keep its safe harbor from copyright infringement lawsuits, it'll need to quickly pull any unauthorized derivative of Urban Terror after receiving a notice of claimed infringement from the Urban Terror team.

  7. Okay Let's Examine the Possible Scenario by eldavojohn · · Score: 1 · on Following Huawei Report, US Rejects UN Telecom Proposals

    Terry Kramer, the U.S. special envoy to the conference, said the US opposes proposals from some of the 'nondemocratic nations' that include tracking and monitoring content and user information, which 'makes it very easy for nations to monitor traffic.'"

    This quote is so rife with arrogance that it makes me vomit, coming from a government that does nothing but blatantly spend money and spy on it's people.

    Well, maybe you should read this proposal by China Mobile to split up the internet via "DNS Extension." Aside from the obvious criticisms and assuming we just blindly said "yeah, sure, China, whatever you want" let me ask you this: Will the situation improve for US citizens? Will the situation get worse for Chinese citizens? I think you have to agree that the answers to those questions are no and yes. Whether or not the United States spies on its own citizens is nothing more than an ad hominem attack to ruin this discussion about putting control of the internet into the hands of other nations that do not have laws against spying on its own citizens and, in fact, are places where unannounced and confusing censorship seems to be the norm.