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I've been saying this for years. Most people don't know about the different TLDs, and because of that most popular sites buy up the other TLDs that match their domainname to prevent people from squatting there, and they redirect (or not) the traffic to their "proper" TLD. Take for example http://slashdot.org/ http://slashdot.com/ http://slashdot.net./

I've always held that country code TLDs are of value. It sucks to do some online searching to buy something and end up at a .com address that is in the UK.

Actually, I don't dare type a URL in my location bar that is not already in my history and/or bookmarks that is automatically completed. Too dangerous if you misspell the sucker. Google is the real DNS provider. Sometimes names aren't what they would think they are either. EG, its not bmw.com, its bmwusa.com.

To belabor this stupid point further. WTF is up with .name and .museum ? TLDs have digressed from their original goal. To simplify and classify things. I mean, how is slashdot.org really a .org anymore? Its a commercial entity. What was ever the point of .net? .biz? And then countries sell off their TLDs like .to, .fm, and .tv, and those are rarely used.

Google (or similar) is the authoritative TLD master, the rest is just novelty.

TLDs are pointless.

Proof:

http://slashdot.com/
http://www.google.net/
http://www.microsoft.net/
http://www.craigslist.com/

All of those are paid for by their respective owners, and they redirect or just display the content of the "real" TLD.

Country codes would be nice, its annoying to go to a .com and find I'm in the UK, and I'm not going to order from them.

If I want to go to a company's website, I don't type www.barnes and noble.net, I ask google for it. Also, with the typosquatting, and whatnot, typing urls is simply unsafe. I do use the URL's history. s completes to slashdot, and whatnot. Just in case you need rock hard erections go to http://www.slashdot.net/

It is curious, but I thought that the real problem we all have with naming in the internet was not a short supply of names, but to the contrary, the ever growing number of fake names with slightly changed names (like http://slashdot.net/) used to catch click. I sometimes wonder if the guys at the ICANN ever use the internet of are still stuck with fax based communications!

I'm going to grossly oversimplify here, but basically, when I submit a query for foo.com, the very first thing queried is the top level domain, in this case, .com. If I were to submit a query to foo.org, the query would take a different path in resolving the name. Same with foo.net, foo.us, foo.biz, etc.

Yeah, try http://slashdot.com/ , http://slashdot.org/ , http://slashdot.net/ , http://slashdot.info/ , http://slashdot.tv/ and see what the results are.

Everything that is not slashdot.org is a wannabe, and even if there was a new TLD that was, say, .notslashdotdotorg and someone registered slashdot.notslashdotdotorg would still be confused with slashdot.org

Name me two well known organizations that have two same names with different TLDs that have not had a legal dispute over one forfeiting the other.

I'm not sure if you're joking, but slashdot is actually based on slashdot.org; slashdot.com just redirects to it. This was probably done to prevent domain sitting. The other domains you've listed - including slashdot.net - aren't controlled by Slashdot, and are being domain sat.

point of information:

slashdot has slashdot.com, slashdot.org, and slashdot.de, and slashdot.jp (in japanese!)

slashdot.net is being squatted by the norwegians
slashdot.info is owned by ZDNet which is offering tech news, arguably profiting off of slashdot's good name.

Travis

I could never get used to typing slashdot.com.

:-D

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So hows does Slashdot plan to keep its domain?

Good thing OSDN owns slashdot.com (but not slashdot.net).

What do I do, when it seems I relate to Judas more than You?

I heard a rumor on ZDNet that Linux Thorvaldees, author of Red Hat Linux 6.1 and Richard Strawlmann, designer of the eMacs word-processor were teaming up to develop a new e-commerce platform using the popular Linux operating system. No word yet on whether it will run on Windows 2000, but the buzz in the IT industry is hot.

Rob Milda, creator of the popular SlashDot.com web site, offering "News for Nerds" was quoted as saying "itll bee SWEET! :)" Another industry luminary, Leary Wall, designer of PEARL, a method for translating programs written in one language to another, offered the comment that "I think it's a great oppert..." before he was surrounded by a hoarde of frothing, raving madmen chanting shouts of "[~A-z**~^38937][!A _$]-o~!" and "There's more than one way to do it!". At this point, a decision was made to end the interview.

as Andover.net's failed attempt to take over slashdot.net.

Oh wait, you never saw that on the front page, did you?