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New TLDs Proposed To ICANN
MemeRot writes: "ICANN has a list here of the new TLDs that have been proposed, along with the companies that have proposed them. The applications haven't been checked to be complete, and ICANN still has to decide whether they're going to allow multiple proposals by a single applicant. Still, this is the list of all possible new TLDs and you will be happy to notice that many people are proposing common sense ideas whose time seems to have come - .sex, .xxx, .kids, and .wap. The current target date for completing any negotiations with registry sponsors and registrars is 31 December 2000." I don't see ".dot"! C'mon!
Actually, someone suggests just that here. But trademarks conflict sometimes... the same name in different industries or different countries. So it'd either have to be hierachical (company.industry.country.tm) or it would have to include its full address (company.road.zipcode.country.tm).
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You know it makes sense.
All claims to other tlds should be thrown in the bin.
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when the time comes that you cant even register bigfathairychickswholoveskinnydudes.com .... its a sign that more tld's are needed
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Make the number of TLDs unlimited.
You could register under any TLD you wanted.
The catch: you can't own the TLD and can't stop someone else from using it.
So if I registered "FUJINON.BINOCULARS", somebody else could register "KOWA.BINOCULARS".
The reason people register more domains than they need is that second level domains under ".COM" are a very limited resource and therefore much more valuable than the registration fee. Talk to any business consultant and you'll find strategic cybersquatting is standard business practice.
If second level domains where many thousands of times more numerous then the value of any one is that much less. Thus while a domain like "ebusiness.com" is valuable under the current system, the name "acme.ebusiness" would be worthless except as functionally as an identifier for your enterprise.
While the root servers may have to be rearchitected, this solution would be transparent to all domain clients.
The biggest problem I could see is with TLDs that are synonymous with a company (e.g. ".IBM"). I'd say those folks could stay under "IBM.COM", or could register several second level domains under ".IBM", such as "computers.ibm" and "services.ibm".
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While we'd appreciate the free book, I think you may be the one who needs to be brought up to speed if you think that there is a technical barrier to running several new TLDs. Name.Space has been operating a registry for 500+ new TLDs for 4 years now with no complaints from BIND. The FUD that we used to see from the likes of NSI about new TLDs breaking the internet is just that: FUD. There are thousands of domains operating in these new TLDs without a hiccup. You can see them for yourself by pointing your DNS servers to 209.48.2.11, 206.86.247.30, or one of Name.Space's 7 other globally diverse nameservers. Several ISPs have made the switch. Name.Space _IS_ the sort of alternative root system that people have been asking for on Slashdot everytime this pops up. If enough people express interest in a new domain which is generic and useful, then Name.Space will add it to the root. It's that simple.
Name.Space does not assert exclusive 'ownership' of the new TLDs, only a right to publish under them. It may look like a land grab when placed on a list of land-grabbers on that ICANN site, but it most certainly is not.
As for your point about domain-squatting vultures,
Name.Space doesn't support domain squatting or registrations on famous names. Name.Space will not allow a domain to be resold. Which domains are Name.Space squatting on?
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...the new web browser feature to block out DNS entries with specific TLDs. I don't know about you, but I redirect all the damn ad pages to 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts file (that is, E:\WINNT\System32\drivers\etc\hosts, hehe). Doubleclick should be forced to use the TLD of .ads. That way, we can block them out at will.
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Why put any limit on the number of tld's? If a company or organization or whatever is willing to sponsor a tld and act as the database for looking up tld addresses etc then why not let them? Just make it so one company can't own more than one tld.
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.dot is there -- it's under the section proposed by JVTeam, LLC. So if .dot becomes a TLD, how do you register slashdot? Is it slashdot.dot or slash.dot? I prefer the former, then you can register dot.slashdot.dot and slash.slashdot.dot. Too bad no one's proposed a .slash TLD; then you could have slashdot.slash and dot.slashdot.slash.
.god domain hasn't made it into the proposed lists. Anybody know what gives there?
BTW, I notice that Joe Baptista's
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how would you tell someone that your URL is dot.dot.dot without spelling it out?
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This sectioning off of the web by content really concerns me. Are we going to get ISPs that refuse to carry .sex or .xxx on their DNS servers? Are we going to have some committee that decides when a site cannot register under the .com or .net TLDs and must register as .adult? I realize that it is still possible to get to sites without using DNS, but it's a lot harder. This raises the spectre of censorware becoming really effective, thereby we lose one of the best arguments against it. That would really suck.
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Will these companies have exclusive rights to those TLDs? If not, this seems kinda stupid. Not that having exclusive rights to a TLD makes much practical sense, either.
.net, .com. and .org at the same time. If we add more TLDs, then these same people will buy up as many names as they can.
Right now, people who are aggressive in their pursuit of domain namespace will grab
If they don't you can bet that whoever grabs disney.sex or microsoft.sucks will get slapped with a suit.
We'll see even more namespace squabbling, even more lawsuits, even more domain grabs, and the only ones to really benefit will be marketdroids pitching TLDs to clients.
Bah!
If we're going this far, why not just hand the whole thing over to RealNames and do away with TLDs altogether.
Humbug!
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What I found disturbing was that ICM Registry, Inc. proposed the pair: .kids and .xxx .
Uhmmm... What exactly does their business plan entail? (shudder) No, nevermind, I don't want to know.
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