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  1. Re:tl;nt by nullchar · · Score: 2 · on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap

    There are a few .museum domains in use: http://index.museum/fullindex.php

    Even more .aero domains in use: http://www.nic.aero/cgi-bin/ad_search.cgi (hit the search without changing the form)

    The same for .jobs and .travel who's registry operator verifies the website contents before allowing the nameservers in DNS. (Which is why steve.jobs never resolved anywhere.)

    Those > 3 character TLDs seem to adequately fit under their respective namespaces, unlike domain names under generic top level domains (gTLDs), as by nature, they are generic and can have non-profits under .com and for-profit companies under .org and personal blogs under .net.

  2. Re:No more TLDs! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain

    ... The ".museum" TLD has so few domains that the entire list fits on one page....

    "corkbutter.museum" Really? If ever there was a domain name that screamed for a .xxx TLD it's "corkbutter".

  3. No more TLDs! by Animats · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain

    We have too many TLDs already. Additional TLDs are just a racket for registrars. As Abacus wrote to ICANN when they applied for ".biz", ".fam", ".cool", and a few other TLDs back in 2000, "The more TLDs we are allowed to operate, and the better quality of those TLDs, the greater the total sales will be."

    ".biz" ended up as the "bad neighborhood" TLD. When you see a ".biz" domain, you visualize a storefront in a half-empty strip mall with trash in the parking lot. We have two vacant TLDs, ".aero" and ".museum". ".aero" is basically a collection of redirects from airport codes to the actual site. See JFK.aero, etc., most of which were created by the promoters of .aero, not the airports.) The ".museum" TLD has so few domains that the entire list fits on one page. We have the redundant TLD, ".info". What was that for, anyway?

    All those TLDs could be closed to new registrations and phased out with no great loss.

    Porno belongs in ".com", with other commercial enterprises.

  4. Time to retire some TLDs. by Animats · · Score: 0, Troll · on XXX Top Level Domain May Still See Use

    We don't need more TLDs. We need fewer of them. ".info", ".aero", and ".museum" should be retired due to lack of interest. (The entire list of .museum domains appears on this page.)

    The ".biz" TLD should be retired as a slum-clearance project.

    Those half-dead TLDs should be put on maintenance level support - no new registrations, and old ones expire in two years.

  5. No more new TLDs! by master_meio · · Score: 0, Insightful · on The .XXX Saga Continues in Wellington
    We have too many TLDs now. Remember all those stupid TLDs from the last round, like ".museum"? Nobody uses them. The big-name museums are under .org or a country domain. (Here's the complete list of domains registered under .museum. Most of them don't even work, and for the ones that do, they're usually an alternate name.) Have you ever seen a domain in ".aero" or ".pro"? ".biz" gets used, but mostly by sleazy operators. There are so few legitimate businesses in ".biz" that it has the reputation of a strip mall in South Central LA.

    ICANN should stop considering new TLDs. In fact, it might be worthwhile to start phasing out some of the newer TLDs due to lack of interest.

  6. No more new TLDs! by Animats · · Score: 4, Insightful · on .xxx Domain Remains in Limbo
    We have too many TLDs now. Remember all those stupid TLDs from the last round, like ".museum"? Nobody uses them. The big-name museums are under .org or a country domain. (Here's the complete list of domains registered under .museum. Most of them don't even work, and for the ones that do, they're usually an alternate name.) Have you ever seen a domain in ".aero" or ".pro"? ".biz" gets used, but mostly by sleazy operators. There are so few legitimate businesses in ".biz" that it has the reputation of a strip mall in South Central LA.

    ICANN should stop considering new TLDs. In fact, it might be worthwhile to start phasing out some of the newer TLDs due to lack of interest.

  7. .museum not under ultilized Re:TLDs to remove by n1vux · · Score: 1 · on ICANN Approves Two More Top-Level Domains
    .museum Remove due to underutilization.

    Wait one jolly minute. .museum was only recently opened, and already has 358 museums of high enough stature to claim 2LD listings and another 366 2LDs with mulitple 3LD registrations, according to the quoted comment's own linked page. This spans 43 countries, with 1324 2LD or 3LD for US museums alone already. (I don't see a quick listing without a DNS hack to see a count of all.)
    This is not underutilized, this is a good ramp-up. Couldn't the linker RTFA that he links to?

    As to .gov, .mil vs .gov.us and .mil.us, well, that would be orthogonal and even-handed. But it's not entirely unfair for the country that built the original Internet upon which the international WWW was built to claim precedence in the internet DNS infrastructure. If one suggests it is beter to geo-located everthing in cyberspace -- an odd theory perhaps -- the only companies in .COM should be those that are multinational, all others should be .co.uk or .com.us .

  8. TLDs to remove by Animats · · Score: 2, Informative · on ICANN Approves Two More Top-Level Domains
    We need to get rid of some TLDs.
    • .gov Migrate to .gov.us
    • .mil Migrate to .mil.us
    • .museum Remove due to underutilization.
    • .biz Slum clearance.

    If ".biz" is kept, the registration requirements for ".com" should be tightened, so that to get into ".com", you have to have a corporation, a DUNS number, or a business license, with that data in WHOIS. Then the slimeballs can be migrated to ".biz".

  9. Re:Typos != intentional usage by Zocalo · · Score: 1 · on Verisign Plans to Revive SiteFinder Advertising 'Service'
    BTW While I think about, can anyone give me an example of a valid use of the DNS wildcard - its not that I don't believe that its useful, its just I don't know enough to prove that it is.

    Here's a few:

    • Musadoma's (approved) use of wildcarding to provide an Index of the .musuem domain
    • Directing user homepages to a central web server cluster for ISPs that use things like "http://customer.isp.net" for their user's homepages (* IN A www.isp.net). I've also used this to provide a customer bandwidth graph to customers with leased lines at an ISP.
    • Similarly, redirecting mail to a central point for dropping into POP/IMAP boxes (* IN MX 10 mail.isp.net)
    There are several others, but these are the ones that you are most likely to see in the wild. Only the first is applicable at the TLD level though, but I suppose if you were the sole ISP for a *really* tiny ccTLD (like The Vatican, say) then you might want to use wildcards in the ccTLD for mail etc.
  10. Re:This isn't really new. by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 3, Informative · on ICANN, IAB Ask VeriSign to Suspend SiteFinder
    Oops good thing I checked before I commented.

    Amazing you are right. I never knew this. That of course might be your answer. Who the fuck uses .museum anyway? (Yeah I know the obvious answer thank you) See this for all the domains on .museum. One company I maintain servers for has got more domains then this list. Anyway.

    The outcry is not so much that they are cybersquatting. Well some are but that is not why the geeks are rebelling. The problem is that you used to be able to do a lot of usefull stuff by checking if a domain existed or not.

    Now thanks to this you can't well not without rewriting your code. grrr.

    I can only guess that nobody ever used a .museum url anyway :)

    But yes it is exactly the same thing. Except for the scale difference. I guess you can't check against spam being send from a .museum domain either.

    Good for finding this and pointing this out.