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No One Wants The Not-Coms

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dot-whatever dept.

angkor points to this Siliconvalley.com article about companies not jumping for the newfangled TLDs like dot-biz. "This is delicious revenge for all the spam I've gotten reminding me to reserve new domain names now before they're all gone ... ." Besides the nice sound of "dot com," perhaps the restrictions surrounding the new official TLDs help to prevent them selling like hotcakes. The world won't be fair until the LED museum and similar sites are offered -- No, given! -- .museum addresses.

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  1. Lets just give everyone a number.. by PopeAlien · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. How about an IP address, assigned at birth.. Thats where you can host your site. Of course you always have jealousy over the really cool IP numbers, but hey, No copyright problems.

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    1. Re:Lets just give everyone a number.. by tswinzig · · Score: 5, Funny

      .. How about an IP address, assigned at birth.. Thats where you can host your site. Of course you always have jealousy over the really cool IP numbers, but hey, No copyright problems.

      Yeah, but the real question is, do you assign one or two IP addresses to Siamese twins?

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    2. Re:Lets just give everyone a number.. by 1010011010 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Give them a subnet

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  2. acronyms...gheez by GutterBunny · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm going to put in for the .tld TLD

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    1. Re:acronyms...gheez by Dr+Caleb · · Score: 3, Funny
      I've been dying for them to release ".dot".

      "dot.dash.dot" are my initials in morse code.

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  3. Re:.com will be around for a long time to come by Fat+Casper · · Score: 3, Funny
    So... .gov, .mil & .edu? :)

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