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Dot-God vs DotGod?

Posted by Cliff on from the dueling-registrars dept.

j1mmy asks: "First of all, the .god registry went live recently, so everybody can now play with their new domains. I did just that, and a typo later, I was at a different .god registry. The dot-god.com is the one slashdot reported on way back when, which is the one I had registered with. As far as I can tell, these two registrars aren't related, and who sees what is merely a question of which dns servers one chooses. Is there an official .god registry? Is this the way the internet is heading as more public dns services and registries come online?" The issue here isn't necessarily that there are two registrars serving the .god TLD, just that the two are so close in name. Is the internet likely to experience more of this sort of confusion as new TLDs come online?

13 comments

  1. dotgod.com is down by epsalon · · Score: 1

    Returns 403 Forbidden via its Apache server.

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    1. Re:dotgod.com is down by j1mmy · · Score: 1

      i submitted this story in july. i'm not too surprised that one of them is down by now.

    2. Re:dotgod.com is down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you serious that it's taken 2 months for the /. team to accept the story? Or had it been accepted back then and maybe a dbase issue has caused us to only see it now?

  2. Interesting... by epsalon · · Score: 1

    How much time till someone registers sex.god? Who will the luck celeb be?

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    1. Re:Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think the lucky celeb is obvious!
      [Warning: Goatse Link! DO NOT CLICK!]

  3. OpenNIC by davidu · · Score: 2

    I think the most popular alternative registry is the one run by OpenNIC. Chances are that if an alternative registry were ever to gain populace that would be it.

    www.opennic.unrated.net

    Furthermore, dot-god.com works and dotgod.com doesn't. I think it's a message from God...whoever ( he | she ) is. ;-)

    -dave

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  4. Startling news! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Insightful


    $ whois one.true.god
    No match for "ONE.TRUE.GOD".

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  5. Official God Registry? by ajuda · · Score: 1

    I thought the whole point of these alternative registrars were that they were alternative : that means they are not official by their very nature. If you want an address that will work by default on any computer, use a regular .com like everyone else.

    1. Re:Official God Registry? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Exactly! What sort of stupid bollocks question is this. Ask Slashdot has really been going down the pan recently, some of the questions have just been plain stupid.

  6. Are these domains legitimate or not? by bergeron76 · · Score: 1

    I just registered a few. If they are legit and will resolve in all browsers, I just did some fun stuff... otherwise, I just blew some serious cash. Can anyone comment on the integrity of these servers???

    Did I waste my dinero?

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    1. Re:Are these domains legitimate or not? by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 2

      Of course. They only work on machines where people have specifically enabled *just* those domains served by Pacific root. As far as I can tell, everyone running an alternate root is a lunatic, exceeded only in lunacy by NSI, of course.
      -russ

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  7. criteria? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    could you really register sex.god? or is there heavy criteria?

  8. Tobin's Spirit Guide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I find that Tobin's Spirit Guide is the definitive directory for the dotGod heirarchy.

    -Vink