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.god Domain Names: Another "Pioneer" Registrar
commodoresloat writes: "According to this article, the top-level domain (TLD) .god will soon be available. Most interesting is that Joe Baptista, who will be selling domain names under the TLD, says outright that he will not respect trademarks or even court decisions ordering him to respect trademarks. Does this mean anyone can register microsoft.god?" Available, maybe, but not very useful if ICANN doesn't care to ever recognize them. Note, though, the site is only semi-functional. "The
registry will allow you to look up dot.god names for availability but
it will not allow you to register at this time." Pity. I hope CmdrTaco gets credit.
I suggest that something like the GNUtella approach be applied to domain names. You could search for "Microsoft" and get not only Microsoft,.com but 3712 MSCE's personal home pages, 38 pages of Microsoft jokes, "Windows Millennium Annoyances" and 7253098 Linux sites...
Hm, then DNS would become the search engine, which didn't occur to me when this idea popped into my head... Maybe this idea is way out there, but there it is.
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How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
I can see more religions taking offense at this. Is this not a really good way to take the Lord's name in vain, as well as put Gods above God? And some other Old Testament no-no's could spring up.
Paul Bryson
-pB
what is required to register a top level domain like .god? can just anyone register it and get it recognized by icann?
when I find myself you'll be the first to know.
Oh, now you want to get technical on me! B-)
Actually, being a party is not a requirement.
source= http://www.duhaime.org/dict-a.htm
Affidavit
A statement which before being signed, the person signing takes an oath that the contents are, to the best of their knowledge, true. It is also signed by a notary or some other judicial officer that can administer oaths, to the effect that the person signing the affidavit was under oath when doing so. These documents carry great weight in Courts to the extent that judges frequently accept an affidavit instead of the testimony of the witness.
DB
Joe's usually short for Joseph-- I've never heard it used for John.
GROGGS: alive and well and living in
If this was the u.k, i *think* he`d be in contempt of court if ordered to hand over domain xxx.god to company y, and he refused. Isnt this the same (or similar) in the states?
>"Can I bring my laptop?"
>Yes, but you can only run one of the following operating systems
>Windows 3.0
>Windows NT 3.1
>It is, after all, hell
>DB
ugh.. first time someone actually came close to converting me...
//rdj
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
"Can I bring my laptop?"
Yes, but you can only run one of the following operating systems
Windows 3.0
Windows NT 3.1
It is, after all, hell
DB
yep, it's disrespectful, and that's the whole point of it. the whole domain registration issue has gotten so ridiculous that disrespect is quite a reasonable thing to do. then again, I don't see how that warrants an article; any idiot with an internet connection can run BIND and set up TLDs that no-one else will see unless they use his nameservers.
No, actually you can't distinguish sites based on their top level anymore. There is a pervasive attitude that .com namespace is more "valuable" in a virtual real estate sense than other top level domains. I guess it's kind of like physical real estate: your property value is lower if you live in a dump of a neighborhood and higher if you live on Boardwalk. The internet savvy Barry Ploegels of the world would rather be on the same TLD as amazon.com and yahoo.com than with some kind of Isle of Niue .nu trailer trash. I wouldn't be surprised if many people who were first introduced to web site addresses from television still aren't completely conscious of other top level domains besides dot-com. Doesn't that buzzword make you nauseous? It doesn't help that web browsers give preferential name completion to .com. Why can't I type "aardvark" into my Location bar and get sent to aardvark.nu which actually contains useful information about aardvarks! Instead, I wind up on some random consulting company's site. Damn, I sound like Andy Rooney.
.coms. Dumb cam-girls who wouldn't know a router from an alarm clock have .nets. A guy I know who ran a textfile group called Radioactive Aardvark Dung (RAD) registered rad.edu (pretending to be the "Raleigh School of Art and Design") and used that domain for nearly two years before Internic figured out it was bogus. Others own domains on top levels located in Pacific islands that they can't locate on a map because manifest destiny minded people have already grabbed the .com, .net, and .org domains of nearly any string they would want.
.com domain rights of all English words to the government so that we may admire them from afar, much like a stroll through a National Park. Reservation of English words would protect their generic beauty from exploitation by namespace Forty-Niners! Domain names that could be purchased would be nonsense words or acronyms. There is but a finite set of English words, but the set of nonsense words or acronyms is infinite. I could sit here all day thinking of up domain names like "squiggledumpkins" and "frobozzbastica"! And no one would bid $100,000 on any of them! Perhaps then people might buy domain names for their intended purpose: to identify a network, not a product.
Seriously, TLDs are totally unreliable when it comes to determining information about a site. Non profit organizations and non-US businesses have
While I'm ranting-- and since crazed Andy Rooney mode is on, I propose that the government establish some kind of Namespace Protection Agency. Our English word domain names are IN DANGER of extinction! Much like the great Sequoia groves of California and Amazon rain forests, businesses are now destroying the beauty of hierarchical categorization! The DNS tree, our Sequoia, once stood proud and balanced to give us O(log n) computational complexity in the worst case. Alas now it is but O(n)! (Proof is left as exercise to reader.)
Perhaps there is no way to encourage the use of more structured, discernible domain names. Perhaps we are doomed to a single business hoarding thousands of second level domain names, virtual-hosted and without useful content. We can at least try to protect the most valuable and precious strings in our namespace. Here's the plan: we give second-level
And if I had moderation I would moderate this up...
-- We should kill all the intolerant people in the world.
ok so the .god idea is stupid, and well we are already doing something stupid so...no need for something new. :)
.net address ment that you were an ISP or something, .com ment that you were selling something and so on. Yeah I know that it leads to the whole microsoft.com vs microsoft.org mess, but I like the information that it can give.
OTOH...I actually would like TLDs that mean something. It would really be nice to be able to tell something about the nature of the group that has the domain by the TLD. you know, back in the day having a
pity it doesnt seem to work.
ACZ
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In order to mirror:
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...or .gods for the polytheistic
- Apple Computer......proudly going out of business for over twenty years.
Yeh, let them have their .god - it'll just make it easier for school libraries and family homes to filter out religious junk.
;)
Also, maybe it would stop people getting thousands of church URLs everytime they try to search for their porn...
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
being a geek and someone who is religious, its funny to see that all i hear about in church is how the so called information generation has forgotten about God. I guess this will make the hypocrites of my kind happy now, yay.
Hmm.. I bet even more people could be offended by the innoffensive PopeAlien.com if it was a .god domain..
.GOD have to be in all caps?
Get moving ICANN!
and what about case- sensitivity? will
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air and light and time and space
(hmm, will anybody see this 5 days after the fact?)
Say hello to zMac.
nietscheisdead.god
funny enough, I registered microsoftisnt.god with them :)
Of course, that's also why there were IP Network classes. Now there are tons of Classless networks, and the routing tables are just plain *huge*.
<sarcasm> soon, we'll see the advent of TLDv6....</sarcasm> *sigh*
It seems to me that any one of us fools could start a registry. The fact that no DNSs respect our system hardly matters -- people are willing to pay. I think that news of people starting new TLD registries will soon be like news of people auctioning off things on eBay: the press not realising a non-event when they see one.
This is just stupid.
-Waldo
I found this about an hour ago, and started playing with it. I tried to register iam.god... Of course is.god would be a good investment (Imagine, for only $20 bucks, you can get *.is.god as your domain name!)
Okay, it's probably not original, but It let me sign up for it!
Hasta luego
Exantrius
...would anyone want to register microsoft.god? Microsoft.666 maybe. Microsoft.god seems like what Bill will register when he decides to gather his killer robots and take over the world.
I can just picture him after the ruling to break up M$, on the news saying: "We offered a comprimise to the DOJ, but they turned it down. So now my mechanical slaves will take over the world! Hahahahaha ALL HAIL MICROSOFT!" Then all TV screens all over the world turn black and then display the M$ logo. He will have support too because there were subliminal messages in all Windows operating systems.
Then the rebels will gather in preperation to invade Redmond. They will airlift a penguin into the M$ building, who is hiding machine guns and bombs under its wings. It blows past Bill's minions and gets to the secret underground lair, just in time to see Bill putting on his human skin (he IS a robot after all!). Bill is alarmed and pushes a button under his desk, which sends in hundreds of killer robots that surround our hero. Fortunatly, all the robots are running Windows CE and they happen to come up with an "Illegal Error"! They all fall down, useless. However Bill is still active because he just rebooted, so he has about 30 seconds left until he crashes, and with no one to revive him, he is doomed. But Tux wants to take him out in style, so he aims, and... "HASTA LA VISTA BABY!!!!!".
The world is once again safe for democracy.
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I think alternate DNS installations are something that the Internet really needs more of. I don't like to see so much power on the net being with one system like it is now.
There was never anything saying that there had to be just one system, and I for one would like to see alternate systems. It would create more redundancy, and probably would make it too difficult to bring stupid lawsuits against people who "have your trademarked domain" like the whole toys.com deal a while back. Making multiple systems would increase choice and impartial organizations for end users.
And no, multiple registration authorities will not be the same. It's just not seperate enough. Everyone is still limited by the same TLDs and the same general system.
Just my two cents.
Sorry. Already taken.
"Man is certainly stark mad: He cannot make a flea, yet he makes .gods by the dozens." - Montaigne....sort of
If there is hope, it lies in the trolls.
If he succeds in registering such a TLD, there will be more than one corporation, willing to protect its trademarks by registering their domain name with a new suffix.
It means that his claim of "not respecting trademarks and courts" might be a psychological pressure in order to push these corporations and collect a lot of registration fees.
Tigers respect lions, elephants and hippos. Maggots respect no one. (C) S. Dovlatov
could I have slash.god? 'cause I'm not, and I'd like to be... regards, Benjamin Carlson
"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal. " - Revolution Books, NY
Sory, I didn't think I had to be politically correct on /. If I want to be a Nazi right winger then why can't I? Free speech is free speech is it not?
Now look at what they've done. Propogating televangelism. I can see it now: sendmoneyto.god or buythehelpof.god I wish they could limit purchases only to non-religious people!
Wrong. You can start with any bible that is already in the public domain and create your own translation, or any other kind of original work and copyright it. A lot of bibles are copyrighted. Also, I'm sure you can take some kind of public domain version of the bible, and copyright your specific typesetting or other unique features. This prevents people from just making copies. Anybody interested in making a GPL of BSD-licence version of the bible? :)
This is probably the beginning of the current centralized naming system. People can set up name resolution on their own computers any way they like. If .GOD becomes popular, people will add it to their name resolvers so that they can resolve URLs that refer to it.
You are probably also going to see little programs that make it easier to reconfigure name resolution statically or even on the fly. In fact, ActiveX components or VBScript "attachments" may be ever so helpful to users to do this automatically.
The main constraint is that if users see a URL, they probably want to be able to resolve the host name to something that exists (but not always--I'd be happy never to resolve the advertisers). That will mean that in the short run, there will remain a core set of name servers that everybody will refer to.
In the long run, browsers will probably almost exclusively use search engines to locate pages, the location bar will disappear, companies will use registered trademarks in ads to allow consumers to locate them ("look us up on the web under FooBar(TM)"), and URLs themselves will be replaced by something location independent. And the dealing in .com domain names will look like tulip mania in retrospect. At least we can hope.
A darker possibility is that, in the process of migrating to a URL-less world, the ISPs will take over name resolution and locating content for you entirely so that you only get to see the pages they want. And it may also be more difficult to get personal or other oddball pages into the directories people will be using.
Perhaps it's just me, but I don't see what the .god TLD (A quite humerous one, too bad you all are going to get is.god) has to do with not respecting trademarks. Sure, that means you can register microsoft.god and such, but isn't that already illegal in 99.9% of the countries? It seems like Joe Baptista is just trying to seem like an evil anarchist.
I am a bad speler. Please ignore speling meestakes in me poast.
I hope he doesn't give the routers the "full immersion" treatment!
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Lets have a .falco as well.
Then when .coms like boo implode, we just move their registrations over to the .falco TLD.
Whats a Falco ?/a>
I.want.to.be.your.god ?
;)
Yep - sounds good to me
...will be the extreme RUSH of people to register sex, football, unix, and god.
ZOMG I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS ON MACINTOSH VERSUS WINDOWS, VI VERSUS EMACS, AND HOW YOU'RE NOT A DORK
Absolutely. A flat naming system will end up helping absolutely no one. Those that propose abolishing TLDs are absolutely clueless.
What we really need is a good standardized selection of 2LDs to be under a country TLD. (If you're truly international and not based in any country you get .int - simple.) If one country (say the US) wants to let XYZ Corp register xyzcorp.com.us, xyzcorp.net.us, and xyzcorp.web.us, that's up to whomever is in charge of the .us TLD.
Personally I feel that proper usage of these 2LDs should be enforced. The web is not about trademarks. It's about finding information. The system should be helping you do that.
I've currently got a .org address but I always wanted to be a .web. It's just an online activity, I'm not a non-profit organization!
As far as switching to this new system, I think it should be an all-at-once deal. "At midnight GMT January 1, 2001, the new domain names will go into effect. Please make a note of it." If you allow a transition period, everyone's going to want to keep clinging to their old names.
Constitutionally Correct
I'd much rather see .odd than .god
.allah soon?
Of course, this does leave room for some great domains... wrathof.god, oh.god, iam.god... I wonder, though, if we'll see a
Barring all else, I can't wait to see what the Christian/Catholic community has to say about this...
Or is sex an unnatural act?
Or is there only one "God"?
Not that any of this matters. You seem to be afraid of blasphemy (whatever that means) of some organized sort. It is a statistical certainty that others disagree with your definition of blasphemy, even to the point of deducing you as the blasphemer. Which party is right, and justified in their use of .god, and which party is wrong and unjustified" I always like to think of myself as being correct in every context, too, but whenever I get to feeling that way, some Christian or another comes along and disagrees with me. Feh.
Welcome to the real world, where freedom still reigns and some folks are still able to draw their own conclusions. Even about God (or gods), and where He/She/It/they may shove it (or not). Enjoy it while it lasts, as I assure you that the alternative is markedly inferior.
Kid-proof tablet..
Of course there are OTHER is.god subdomains.. anybody ELSE have good ones? =)
.- CitizenC (User Info)
she thought it was fewkin hilarious!!!
Hey! I have a brilliant idea! Why don't we just all agree to use AOL Keywords for everything?
...Joe Baptista, who will be selling domain names under the TLD, says outright that he will not respect trademarks or even court decisions ordering him to respect trademarks.
Well, who does he think he is? God?
Anyway, please stop posting crap, Dr Fool.
Gates.says.money.is.god
Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson
No one really seems to have kept up the intent of the COM/ORG/NET division, so what the hell's the point. Or do you think
-Earthman
Earthman
Say it to me face w/ out wasting space...
or perhaps there.is.no.god
I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Burn All TLDs!!! OK, I really, really am serious. We simply don't need them.
Think about it. Companies will always buy their domain name with every possible TLD no matter how many there are. So it isn't like we'll get any more domain names appearing when we create more and more restrictive rules.
Meanwhile, the trademark disputes won't stop. They'll just get more lucrative. What's the point of trying to pigeonhole every site by its Jungian archetype? TLDs like .gov can exist, certainly, but why make those last three letters so important? Let's just open it up.
Anything should be allowed to be a TLD. If coke wants to buy .coke, then fine. We've grown out of this authoritarian need to control everything. Let's just let go, and reorganize at a higher level.
Funny as it sounds Burn All TLDs is really what I think we need to do. Leave it ALL open for everyone. If slashdot wants .slashdot or .flame or .grits, what other than an anal need to organize everything should stop them?
I get the feeling that, like all the other times I have said this, I'll either get moderated into the floor or ignored. But this really is an important thing to think about. We all assign some magic importance to it, but it is just an organizing convention from the prehistoric past.
Arpanet is gone. Time for us to find our names for ourselves.
hmmmm
seems to me that would be about like crossing the proton streams. you know, dogs and cats, living together...
tcd004
Here are my
Microsoft and AICN parodies, where are yours?
Well there is always the "of" subdomains. and to
will.of.god
submission.to.god
house.of.god
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
no one- they're 'free for the first year'
Had he been a true visionary, he would have started the TLD ".isnotgod"
Example: microsoft.isnotgod
(Off-topic note to CmdrTaco et al.: Fix extrans mode or remove it!)
more positive re-inforcement for my paranoia, now .god may be against me too.
"He's a real midnight golfer"
What do you mean, 'corrup' the root servers? How did the guy from alternic do this? Did he actually have access to modify zones in the root servers? You simply cannot do this, it's not possible. As for this guy... if he wants to create his own tld.. that's just fine. It has no effect unless the root servers dig it... and they don't.
Nope, you're right, that's the guy. I've met him IRL (been to one of his parties, way back when), he's very ... interesting.
This is my
This is my
--An Oldie, but a Goodie!
There were a lot of unhappy people when "gay" started to be used as a synonym for homosexual. Now the shoe is on the other foot.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
it was there earlier! i swear ta... well.... nevermind...
That'd be my choice.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
Joe Baptista's domain is on the Realtime Blackhole List for spamming. Check this for full details.
And youarenot.god while I'm at it, too.
Carousel is a lie!
Would it really be his responsibility to be a police-force for Trademark and Copyright infringement?.. Why should a registrar limit the registration of "mcdonalds.god" or "pepsi.god"? Unless these domains are actually used to infringe the copyright, why shouldn't "Joe McDonald" be able to own "mcdonalds.god"?..
.. The internet is not like TV or Radio.. It is a "many to many" medium, more like the phone system.. Do we hold the phone company accountable if someone has a number that could "potentially" infringe on a copyright? (1-800-FAT-FOOD?)
Taking it one step further- even if the site is a parody or direct rip-off of the trademark.. should the registrar really be held accountable rather than the owner?
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air and light and time and space
why there is no .WEB ? It would be pretty cool for all the web only based businesses, as in, " no brick and mortar here ".....
as for me, I'd pro'lly register angry.god
or maybe drooling.god..
heh.
If there is .god for monotheistic folks, where is .nogod for the atheists?
My email is real.
Politically correct activists will diatribe him for not also registering .goddess as a .god equivalent. "I mean, the SEXISM! How more of a bigot can he be?"
.gods as well. "How inconsiderate to the other gods."
.goddoesnotexist .. "for truly does he not realize that he's an idiot for thinking of any at all..."
Then of course, are the people who will blast him for not getting
Oh, and then there is group that wants him to put
Just stick to organizational domains and country codes... nobody needs a domain for every word in the dictionary
Doesn't anyone else thing that it is mighty fishy that this is being offered by some guy calling himself "Joe Baptista" (John the Baptist)?
Spend your money on the damn content. We don't NEED more tld's. We don't even NEED more 2lds..... .com, .net, and .org back to what they are supposed to be, and everyone else, get your ass back to work on CONTENT and FUNCTION.
get working on new directory services for the web, start enforcing DNS registration policies, get
How will having a cool domain suddenly make the content of your site worth something? It won't..
Well.... duh.... I can't think of any use of a .god domain other than abuse. Which is exactly why I will rush out to get mine -- isno.god
After seeing Tammy Baker, I thank god I'm an athiest.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
Why won't somebody make .cum available for XXX & porno sites, and restrict that content to that TLD, there would be one less argument as to why cencorware should be used.
No sig. Go away.
I think we can all agree that the current .com, .org and .net model is total crap. Commercial sites use .org, nonprofit organizations use .com and nobody knows .net from anything else. My ISP is .on.ca -- Great, it's in Ontario, but what else can we tell about it from that?
My point is, it's too late to structure the net the way it should be. It already has become anarchy. Deregulization of TLD naming conventions will not make the net any more confusing, but it will end the trademark dispute once and for all. No company could possibly buy every single combination. The only factor to consider here is if I want to buy, (yes, buy. This register-for-two-years-and-then-pay-us-again plan needs to be abolished as well) say, microsoft.hi. MS obviously wouldn't be pleased with someone owning a domain containing their name. I really wish the governments of major internet powers :-) could arrange some sort of deal whereby legislation was passed to declare that domain names are not subject to copyrights. A business name could be Amazon.com, but they have no hold over the domain name.
There, that's about it for me...
-- Chris Dunham
http://www.chamdex.com
Examples: boo.grave, fordsucks.grave, etc.
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
>>"Can I bring my laptop?"
>>Yes, but you can only run one of the following operating systems
>>Windows 3.0
>>Windows NT 3.1
>>It is, after all, hell
>>DB
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> ugh.. first time someone actually came close to converting me...
Better luck next time...
Since when does "religious" == "Christian"? We heathens have gods too, you know... (Christians just hate us because they're jealous that we have more gods than they do.)
Sure they may in theory help for web searching but generally I hate having to try foobar.com/net/org/gov. Next we will have hundreds of tlds. I say abolish them all. We have language, lets use it. how about http://coke or http://slashdot. Infact most browsers will drop the http:// for you so lets get rid of that too (or make it http by default). If I hear another radio person say "my web site is at:l eyou,doubleyou,dot,shit,com I will.............................................. ........................................ .................................................. ...........................SHIT!
aech,tee,tee,pee,colon,slash,slash,doubleyou,doub
come on how about just plain old shit! that would be much better, no http, no com, gov, net etc.
Thanx,
no sig.
And all system backups must be done onto 5 1/4 floppies...
"The first time I got drunk, I got married. The second time I bought a chimpanzee, after that I stayed sober" Arian Seid
Thats what this is. I can't beleive that .god is even being considered over a billion helpful .tld's. Wasn't there just recently a post about suggested .bank and such. I hate being the voice of reason, but the whole net should know better.. besides.. thou shalt not have strange gods before me.. or something. I just doesn't seem right.
Or perhaps instead of being an idiot, he is insightful. The domain of trademarks is commerce. (Damn overloaded language. Let me try that again...) The concept of "trademark" only exists in relevance to trades. It is logically impossible for a trademark to be violated outside of the scope of commerce. For example, when someone hands a mysteriously burned black rock to a geologist and the geologist says, "That is coke," he is not violating a trademark.
I'm assuming that anything within the .god TLD is implicitly within the realm of religeon. (No, I don't truly and naively believe that's all it'll be used for, but the TLD nevertheless has a purpose, just as .com and .net do.) No religeon (except Scientology *cough*) could have a trademark, could it?
Is the pope going to register a trademark on the word "Catholic"? What's next, copyrighting the bible? Yeah, we have to protect God's incentive to create such works.
I'm an atheist have never witnessed anything supernatural in my life. But if a fiery chariot comes down from the heavens, bearing a being who says his name is "McDonalds", then I'll going to register and sing His praises on mcdonalds.god, and if any megacorp comes looking for me, I'll laugh in their face. This is out of your realm, Ronald!
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As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Of course, it gets a bit more complicated when you start querying other peoples' DNS servers (e.g. Microsoft's in that example) for third and higher level domains.
Perhaps a better way to do this is:
1) Define a new TLD. ICAAN doesn't have to support it. You can make it .biteme if you want.
2) When the (modified) DNS server gets a request in the .biteme TLD, it strips the .biteme TLD off of the request. So in the Microsoft example microsoft.com.biteme would become microsoft.com, but a flag would be set saying that it's on the alternative DNS system.
3) If the flag isn't set, proceed as things are now.
4) If it's in the alt DNS system (there could be many of these, actually), all DNS requests would take place on a different port. (e.g. not port 53).
Obviously, this needs some refinement. :)
"YOU ARE GOING TO HELL! "
Can I bring my laptop?
Say that this person does ignore trademarks and court-orders. Further suppose that he's able to do this w/o adverse consequences. Could, say, Microsoft successfully sue the person(s) who register microsoft.god?
Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.
pronoblem
It can all be sorted by reserving 1st & 2nd level domains for administrative puroposes only.
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Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
I really don't understand this. Why, out of all the possible 3-letter combinations, is GOD going to get approved?
.xxx is probably the best one strictly for porn sites, and boom, you've solved keeping kids off the porn.
I've seen better ideas for TLDs from the trolls on here.
NOT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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In this case, it's both. Americans in America are supposed to obey American law, even if the effects of their actions cross national boundaries.
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core is an independent registrar organization. whatthefuck.com is registered by one Nick Melnick of 2550 Long Lake Road, New Brighton, MN 55112.
he registered it through domainbank.net, a core member.
as soon as core popped up, i went and grabbed sickfuck.org, a domain i had long lusted for, but which my requests for had been previously denied.
down with nsi.
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And think of all the other religions you could have ... .zeus, .thor ...
This one's gonna be too good not to abuse. I can see it now -- atheist.god, i.am.god, $foo.is.god (with $foo as who/what ever), ask.god (hehe confessional! hahaha), find.god (aka 'where's waldo'), etc. The hilarity just may never end.
But first, I've gotta get com.god. I must! hahahahaha
DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
Maybe you should ask the owner of the name "God" to see if he would aprove of this, this is heresy! Oh well, no on capitalizes it anyway
poop.
http://www.hoe.nu/jesus.html
Thanks n stuph.
-Mogel
You're suggesting that, when people are rude an offensive, I should just "deal with it?" I think not.
Don't get me wrong here -- I'm not some crazy overly "PC" bastard. To hell with political correctness. There's a difference between trying to stop people from saying things that might be offensive, though, and asking them to stop saying things that are.
You're right, meanings of words do change. And as it stands right now, "gay" means "homosexual." It does not mean "dumb" or "stupid." People insist on using it that way, though, and the end result is they end up offending people like me. And if you want to take an extremist view, they make the world an increasingly more hostile place in the eyes of gay kids, who hear these comments and think that everyone has something against them, for no good reason.
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"I personal[ly] think Unix is "superior" because on LSD it tastes like Blue." -- jbarnett
how all the 'religious' companies are little more than commercial entities.
ROFL. Uh...companies usually are commercial entities. They might be non-profit or profit, but they still are commercial.
BTW, being Catholic, I am always amused by atheists referring to anyone believing in any religion as "sheep". They usually call people names like this because they cannot justify their belief (!god) over another person's belief (god+). This upsets them.
Hey US guys, want to her a good one ? In french, "god" is the shortened version of "godemichet", which translate to "dildo". Do you still want a dildo attached to the back of your company ?
What about all us pagans? .goddess?
I don't like fish. Reverse the fish to e-mail.
Joe Baptista is the resident troller of the Domain Policy mailing list. I'm surprised you all fell for it.
even the religion of athiesm?
Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
Folks, !Dr. Joe Baptista (that's "not-Doctor") is a long-time net kook/troll/prankster, and this is just his latest desperate plea for attention. Toronto residents have been unfortunatly familiar with his antics for years and years now, and he seems to have recently developed a particular fondness for trying to stir up trouble around DNS issues.
Baptista was last seen threatening to Sue Paul Vixie and MAPS/RBL, but frankly he's a shadow of his former self these days. Way back in tha day, Baptista was a major irritant to the Provincial Government of Ontario, trying to fax bomb them into oblivion.
And let's not even speak of his friend Bob Allisat...
Will atheist DNS admins accept it?
This won't be good I can see it now ihate.god
iam.god
damnyou.god
ibeleivein.god
Etc... The only thing he is gnna have to worry about are those Gun Toten Mud Slinging Nazi's Known as the Christian Right or Reich or what ever they are.
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maybe i'm just not up on internet celebrities... but why does this guy Joe get to add a top level domain? when was the last time a non-country-code based TLD was created? whatever happened to .web and .biz and all the other ones under consideration back in the day? has .god been on the list for a while? is there some sort of procedure for requesting the addition of new TLD's? why is this whole post just questions? ---
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"how can the same street intersect with itself? i must be at the nexus of the universe!" - cosmo kramer
So you can check for availability in this new TLD, but you can't register anything under it yet?
I'd imagine that was an extremely simple CGI to write.
Hey, Joe Baptista is a regular poster in the OpenSRS mailing list, doesn't seem like a service someone starting their own gTLD would be using. He seems like a real innovator. He managed to piss everyone in the list off by saying that (essentially) the problem with the internet was poorly written software such as BIND and Sendmail (actually he is pissed because he was RBLed) to the point where Paul Vixie actually joined the list just to post a couple of messages in response.
Sarcasm aside, this guy is 20 pounds of BS in a 10 pound sack.
Maru
Ah yes, my bad. I'm still used to whois returning useful information. Bastards. :(
Hi there
I live in Iceland, and our domain name ending is dot.is. This has brought abouta variety of webpage space names, amongst others www.this.is/username, www.what.is/username, www.somename.is/adjective and so on. Pretty cool, huh?
santa.vs.god
linus.vs.god
SUNDAY.SUNDAY.SUNDAY.SANTA.VS.GOD
ZEN is a prime number in base-36
The burning (bush?) question: Will he respect God in name dispute matters?
lol.
bow.before.me.for.i.am.god
flatrabbit,
peripheral visionary
"Never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it."
I think that many corporations would be hesitant to resgister company.god simply because they would fear alienating and pissing off customers who have strong religious beliefs. This really seems to be more of a TLD for people who dont give a damn. Maybe not tho..
Segfault
segfault@bellatlantic.net
There's one argument for the guy. This is a religious thing, so what can the government really do about it?
There have been several proposals for adding more TLDs - the IAHC International Ad-Hoc Committee was relatively reasonable, ICANN was a bit less so, thoguh that was partly because it was a year or two later so there was more commercial conflict, and Esther (bless her heart) knew it would be a dirty job when she took it. As far as I know, the only proposals for new TLDs that have actually succeeded have been a few new country codes (because there's an existing bureaucracy for that, plus of course the countries who've made a quick buck by renting out their namespace), and Brad Templeton's proposal for
There have also been the disorganized proposals, from people like Kaspureff at Alternic, and the orange.net folks - start an alternative root, and try to convince people to use your root instead of the Big Roots, but they're fighting a losing game. It's partly a losing game because they've been losing (:-), and partly because it doesn't solve the fundamental problem, it just trashes any efficiencies you gain by shoving conflicting names down a layer in the tree so you don't see them if you're not looking for them.
The people who've been successful at pushing new namespaces have taken different approaches - ICQ numbers are a global namespace, and nobody minds because they don't spell anything and the server can cope with the scale. Realnames sells namespace, and people who want it can use it. And all of these things can easily be patched under the DNS tree, e.g. 1234567678.icq.net or mycompanyname.realnames.com.
(Unless I'm mixing up names,) Joe does, however, get Extra Slack points for having been the guy who tied up various Canadian provincial and federal government organizations for a while by constantly faxing them his requests for fair treatment, better laws and regulations, etc.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Therefore, I've succeeded in proving one of tghe great philospohical puzzles of all time, by showing that .GOD does not exist.
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mr-t.vs.god
...you can't forget
clapton.is.god
... L. Ronald McDonald?
Host names should be permanent. They define resources--and not legal jibberish. Legal jibberish can change anytime a judge farts.
Isn't that actually how legal jibberish was created? (At least it's how I was taught in my school.) =)
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
Think Judy Blume would register areyouthere.god?
What is the practical use for a .god domain name? Would religious sites actually use this? I can just see the possibilities for abuse...
www.ohmy.god
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This guy doesn't sound like he's in the top 5% of the brain catagory. Saying he will not respect and trademarks or copyrights in an invitation to a tsunami of lawsuits in this day and age. It's not a good idea.
Colm Atkins
this seems weird. why would they make .god? just for the heck of it? it doesn't seem very practical. maybe .comm, because it seems like all the .coms are taken-but then we'd have someone say "it's slashdot.C-O-M, not C-O-M-M..." or something.
In case you were not aware, many porn sites would rather not be filtered out. They would, therefore, attempt to avoid detection and would most likely avoid categorization with a .sex TLD. In fact, now that I think about it. I can't imagine much anyone silently going along with such forced categorization. Most companies, organizations, agencies, etc. will fight to stay the way they are.
I'm lonely. Come be my friend. http://www.calebgriffin
If it were restricted to religious websites I think this would be a great idea. However, since I somehow doubt it is, I think it's pretty stupid.
-- Napalm sticks to kids.
While God was resting, Joe took over.....
like... i.am.your.god, my.god.beat.up.your.god, etc. etc.
:(
I'd estimate the number of slanderous, hate, or humor sites will outnumber legitimate religion sites by a factor of 10.
I'm still bitter that someone registered whatthef**k.com before me back when some registrar said they'd allow registering of F*** word domains... but I check now and it's been retaken by the "Core Internet Council Of Registrars"
I think an alternate DNS would be more of a bad thing than a good thing. With the Internet today by my estimates linking 3 gazillion computers and switches through 42 million gabillion trillion 10^1000^10 - 1 miles of fiber optic and such cable, people should learn to deal with what-they-want.what-they-wanted-but-someone-else-g ot.com, or get what-they-didn't-really-want.com, and not create a whole new DNS that would, being re-made from the ground up, almost certainly become that much more commercialized, and easier for the govt. to say we own j00. To this geek atleast, I like the whole unity of the internet, and its oneness. That and the too much money spent on connecting to the internet via ISDN (because no other highspeed is near me) would only certainly go up if i were to want to get both halves of the internet.
Just my 00000010 cents.
g.eof();//f
It's called Prince (again!). You get to write songs like "jack U off" and "soft and wet" all the while claiming to love god.
War is necrophilia.
that is righteous
If you want to do something really useful, modify gethostbyname() etc to use LDAP calls and set up an LDAP naming service.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
root.god/what/is/difference?
Those Alternic people have been around for as long as I can remember. All this stuff is quite useless. Why do some people, once they understand DNS operation, feel the urge to offer some alternative thing? Can you imagine 10 additional, non-internic, TLDs from 5 registries, without a centrally maintained root.hints file? Sounds like a bad thing(TM) to me.
And YES! Before you all scream out and say, you are using CAPS and SHOUTING... I'll say YES! And I'll say it as loud as I can. I AM SHOUTING.
SHOUTING indicates anger, and if there were a stronger indication of anger, I would be using it, because SHOUTING cannot possibly express how ANGRY I FEEL RIGHT NOW.
WHY? Because I thought that people still had morals. I don't CARE whether you believe in GOD, but you should respect those who do. THIS IS PATHETIC! Why must we stoop to this level? WHAT IS STOPPING SOMEONE FROM REGISTERING sex.god!
This makes me want to throw up. I invite the internet community to have some morals, and sensitivity to those who have faith and hold the word God as sacred (yes, I still spell it with a capital G. SEE! I HAVE FAITH! ARE YOU JEALOUS?!). Reject this TLD or restrict it to religious institutions. And I invite, no, DARE, the moderators to moderate this message up so that everyone can see the sorry state of affairs that has befallen us...
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Daniel Zeaiter
daniel@academytiles.com.au
http://www.academytiles.com.au
ICQ: 16889511
Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | my blog
You cannot wash away blood with blood
root.is.god.
or did they?
Insert mind here.
Why just three letters? TLDs should provide some layer of classification (i.e. ".microsoft" shouldn't be a TLD), but there's no arbitrary limit on length. Or is there?
Perhaps people would respect your argument more if you chose a term other than 'gay' to describe the situation.
I never been so broke that I couldn't leave town.
Someone needs to register my.god just because it makes a sweet WHOIS lookup. It's perfect for those youngsters who are trying to find myself. Who needs years of self exploration when you can just boot up the box and type WHOIS my.god and get all the answers.
Generic words trademarked as names like staples or sprint might be used in good faith by another company in a different business without violating the trademark. Organizations like WIPO and ICANN should be careful to ensure they are not being overzealous in protecting famous marks. IANAL, but another company using a trademarked name is usually in violation only when a likelihood of confusion exists. For example, it would likely be a clear violation for a software vendor to use microsoft.god because it is likely to be confused with Microsoft. But if you were marketing... oh..., let's say a Viagra antidote, you might succeed at making an argument that you were using microsoft in your name because it accurately described your product, which is very unlikely to be confused with Microsoft's products. Of course, this would be stupid unless you're ready to spend millions in legal fees and/or loose your case.
Consider this: anyone can set up their own TLD. I can set up my root DNS servers for .god or whatever I want. But nobody who doesn't already know about you (and add a DNS server in your network to their configuration) will be able to reach you. Because, the people in charge of the REAL root servers don't have your TLD in there. We could all set up .god TLDs. (Ever hear of AlterNIC? The masses won't reach any .god addresses until ICANN adds them... and nothing in the article said they were going to add .god.. just that they would be considering new TLDs in meetings soon. Which is nothing new).
--- Where's my X.400 protocol decoder?
joe.baptista.is.not.god
Got Rhinos?
=)
http://proxy.pccf.net/bod/jb/
he seems to know what he is doing though..
Joe Baptista is involved in internet governance as a member of the General Assembly of the Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO) of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
What grade are we in, now? Third?
I wonder if the people who use the word "gay" like this even think about what they're saying. I suppose it doesn't really matter, though, because either way, it's just as insulting to people who are gay, have gay friends or relatives, etc.
Aside from those issues, do you really think that anyone is going to take you seriously now?
You don't see people (at least, not that I'm aware of) using, say, "spick," "wop," or "nigger" as insults anymore. Why is using "gay" any different? It's just as insulting to the group you're making fun of, whether you realize it or not.
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"I personal[ly] think Unix is "superior" because on LSD it tastes like Blue." -- jbarnett
or of course....my childhood favorite
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
It sounds like a good idea... but it would piss off an enormous amount of people. How about doing the exact opposite (sort of)? Instead of abolishing the TLD why not just let any three-letter TLD be registered? Entertainment sites could get whatever.fun. Porn sites would flock to whatever.ass. Assholes could finally get their whatever.web and shut the hell up. And, of course Mr. T could have whatever.mrt. Best of all, companies would finally give up in their quest to register every possible trademark and sue anyone who crosses their way. Everyone wins!
x1r0k3wl
Just my worthless two cents
-- zaius --
Sure, but why would I?
DB
With all the recent lawsuits, someone is sure to sue someone if their trademark is being violated and US trademark offices have a way of siding with the money unfortunately. Also, if ICann doesn't recongize it, then how will it work without software engineers programming
I just hope that they don't cost $110US a year like those damn .cc names. That's the gayest thing ever, even gayer than NSI saying they own your domain name I feel. Who feels like suing NSI right about now?
http://god.pccf.net/main.html
It's only a "test registry" at the moment, but it's got links to create/modify/whois.
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
It doesn't matter if his policies don't favor trademark holders. Trademark dilution and copyright violations are legal matters, not matters of company policy. If he knowingly lets it happen, he can be fined or go to jail.
Most judges would be pretty ticked at his attitude too, which would make it all the worse for him.
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Got Warez?
What I would like to see is who would register microsoftis.god: MS or someone else??? Ahh, I just wanted to have a laugh...
Rajiv Varma
RFC2826, which was issued last week, is an IAB comment on this kind of unilateral TLD "creation" by third parties. The use of non-standard DNS roots is generally a Bad Thing as it creates all kinds of problems, not only limited to breaking the global nature of the DNS namespace. In summary, the IAB are of the view that a globally unique DNS root is essential, and that isn't going to change.
The problem with this alleged TLD is that it will only be visible for people using this guy's root servers, rather than the standard Internet roots. In other words, it's not a proper TLD and therefore sucks. It's just gold-digging.
- slashdot.news - dedicated to the news and only the news
- slashdot.games - dedicated to games
- slashdot.linux - self explanatory
- slashdot.porn - goes without saying
- slashdot.crazy - place for trolls
and i'm sure you can think of many, many others.Yes, there is someone that can. Joe Baptista. Why don't you ask him?
Do you really imagine there's some cabal somewhere that meets weekly in smoke filled rooms to register TLA's that don't meet with your approval? Or are you asking us to use our Amazing Psychic Powers to read his mind and report back to you?
Seems everyone has a domain now. Soon everyone will be able to have their own top-level domain too?
http://www.templetons.com/brad/domain.html
-p.
Can you provide an affidavit stating that it was God who wrote the Bible ?
no sig
the theists have already got a pretty good search engine...
just ask jeez
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
Someone already grabbed fuck.god... ;(
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
If there was an agreement that all Web sites with religious content would be hosted under a ".god" TLD, and that all adult Web sites would be hosted under a ".sex" TLD, etc., then think about how problematic filtering software could be made a whole lot more effective. If I wanted to block adult/Christian/etc. content from being viewed by my children, the task would be a helluva lot easier.
.. it would all be voluntary, and you'd have to have somebody making objective decisions as to what gets classified as "pornography" and "Christianity" (and what doesn't), but there are still good reasons to keep top-level domains around. I don't think that all-out anarchy is really the answer to anything.
Yes, I know that there are still problems
Just some thoughts.
Ohmy.god.
I think this clown has the right idea. ICANN has too much power. We should create a way to byass their meaningless authority and create all the TLDs we want, and register all the domains we want without ISPs stealing them or the copyright police suing.
Don't just whine about poor internet privacy and freedom policies,
Egos, that's what this is.
.com, .org, .edu- those are all descriptive names for commercial enterprises, non-commercial organizations, and education stuff. But .god? What, you own that domain name, and have supreme power over it? Yay for you.
.god type domain names' There should be freedom, after all. However, I think it would have been better not to come out with .god. THere are so many other combinations of letters, that would be more meaningful.
:-P
Somebody wants to be the god of their own little world, and have everybody know. What other reason is there for such a label?
yeah, it's funny, in a way. It's also very disrespectful and presumtuous. It seems to mock the other names, and anybody who dares believe in higher powers.
I'm not going to say 'No, there should be no
I hope I've done the HTML right.
Starskita
Starskita
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.god is just another step. Who knows what TLD's will come next. . .
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.