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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.
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
...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
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...
Of course there are OTHER is.god subdomains.. anybody ELSE have good ones? =)
.- CitizenC (User Info)
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?
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.
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.
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Got Rhinos?
Will atheist DNS admins accept 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
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".
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?
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.
http://www.templetons.com/brad/domain.html
-p.