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BenBenBen writes "According to this story on the BBC, several of the new ICANN top level domains now have sites available. Examples are visa.info and afilias.info. " I'm still waiting to get my 'dot' TLD. The article doesn't say much new except it tells us a few biz and info sites that you can use if you just wanna see a new TLD working. I gotta say, it's pretty surreal.
Some registrars are offering ".sex" domain. However : .SEX ISN'T A TLD AND IT PROBABLY NEVER WILL.
.sex domain, the registrar send you a little pluging for Internet Explorer. That plugin adds lookups for .sex site on the registrar's name server. So it works. It works for you, it works for whoever installs the plugin.
When you buy a
But it won't work for all the rest of the world. You'll be charged $75 for a domain that nobody will see.
Take care, there are a lot of registrar registering ".sex" domains, saying that "they soon will be available as real TLDs". But that's untrue. Nobody knows whether it will even happen. But your credit card will be billed.
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.arpa has always been legit.
There's always http://www.icann.org/tlds/
If you want to voice your concerns about a specific issue with the new domains. Direct contacts, that's evil, I wonder if they will read all their mail.
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
I work for the company managing the technical backend for .pro, and while I understand you're saying this at least partially tongue-in-cheek, I need to correct your misconception. .Pro is for licensed professionals onle - at the time of veritifcation, license numbers, etc. will be submitted. There will be subdomains of .law.pro, .med.pro, etc.
Now, whether that's useful to anyone, I don't know. But no finnair.pro, I'm afraid.
Thanks,
Matt
Note: I work for a domain registrar, but I don't speak for one.
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There have been other TLDs in operation in
.biz).
limited subsets of the 'Net for some time.
Check out OpenNIC's site for a host of information about an internet namespace that's administered democratically. (There are several such namespaces, many of which are coalescing into a large, collaborative space run by the people,
for the people. OpenNIC is particularly well
run.)
The new ICANN standards actually conflict with pre-existing namespaces (such as
All you have to do is point your DNS server into
the OpenNIC tree...
This one's not new, but rather is one of the "special" TLDs, alongside .gov, .edu, and .mil. Its used for International Organizations, such as the United Nations.
Well, it is for "international organizations", but in this context, they have decided to follow the definition used by the International Law on Treaties, in which "international organization" is defined to be "intergovernmental organization", such as the UN, WHO, etc. What they say is that to get a .int, the organization would have to be formed by an international treaty between governments (there is another option: international databases).
However, it should be quite clear that the International Law of Treaties never intended to give a general definition of "international organization", so what has happened is that most organizations that are international has been excluded. I for one think that IAPS belongs in .int.
Now the really bad part of this is that certain organizations has been allowed to get .int though they have not been formed by international treaties, for example YMCA. YMCA has a similar formation history as IAPS, and does certainly not fit the criteria used. I think they do belong in .int, but it kind of makes you wonder what they did to get that name.
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