.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.

Comments

I want to register is.god..

[citizenc]

.. so I can good subdomains:

• slashdot.is.god
• citizenc.is.god
• bill.gates.thinks.that.he.is.god

Of course there are OTHER is.god subdomains.. anybody ELSE have good ones? =)


.- CitizenC (User Info)

Who does this guy think he is?

[Zoyd]

...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?

Viva la Revolution!

[Wellspring]

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.

Joe Baptista on MAPS RBL

[Analysis Paralysis]

Joe Baptista's domain is on the Realtime Blackhole List for spamming. Check this for full details.

Cripes...

[Greyfox]

I could set up a TLD and not have it recognized by ICANN. It doesn't take a whole lot to create one. Having anyone on the Internet be able to resolve it and not corrupting legitimate root servers are rather more difficult issues. I seem to recall that you'll get arrested or sued (I forget which at the moment) if you corrupt the root level DNS servers (Remember, the guy from Alternic did this a while back) so if that happens you can use the headline 'They killed .god!'

If you want to do something really useful, modify gethostbyname() etc to use LDAP calls and set up an LDAP naming service.