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New TLDs Proposed To ICANN

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the here's-the-big-list dept.

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!

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  1. Re:Trademarks go here by interiot · · Score: 4

    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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  2. Trademarks go here by fatphil · · Score: 4

    .tm

    You know it makes sense.

    All claims to other tlds should be thrown in the bin.

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  3. Don't see .dot? by big+balls · · Score: 4
    How about opening your eyes?

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  4. Hmm.... by wedg · · Score: 4
    If it ever comes to the point where the domain name system has to be re-vamped, maybe it should be done like newsgroups. All the new suggested TLDs I'm hearing sound like newsgroups to me. com.os.microsoft anyone? How about org.news.slashdot? Just a thought.

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    1. Re:Hmm.... by ichimunki · · Score: 4

      Combine this idea with the previous post where it is suggested that anyone who is willing to sponsor and host a TLD should be able to, then you've got a really cool system going, imho. Of course, then you need a TLD registrar to keep all the zone lookups in order, right?

      By the way, I love this com.* org.* type construction a lot, for the simple fact that you can begin to build URL completion around them. Looking for a company, but aren't totally sure how to spell the name, or worried that it might be hyphenated or whatever. Typing: com.business*name or com.bus*name, gets a list of matches, until you've found your site. This doesn't work so well when the matching starts at the most specific part of the address and is mostly useful for filling in the last four digits/characters.

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  5. www.slash.dot? by Lxy · · Score: 4

    how would you tell someone that your URL is dot.dot.dot without spelling it out?

    "You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson

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