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New ICANN TLDs Are Live

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the entering-a-new-era dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Why We Don't Need A .sex by ToLu+the+Happy+Furby · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Do sex sites have domain names like microsoft.com? As amusing as that would be, the answer is also no.

    Good point!

    (Seriously, I do agree with you and besides this venerable exception and the oft-mentioned difficulty of getting good clean musical fun after typing "Britney Spears" into a search engine (although lately even the official Britney material is becoming delightfully unclean), there really is no real possibility of confusing porn and non-porn sites. IMO while a .sex domain might theoretically bring some benefits, the potential for censorship of every other tld and the blocking of .sex would be too great if it existed.)

  2. And to think ... I've been doing this with opennic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant
    OpenNic has brought about an entire new DNS root system with tld's such as, .oss, .geek, .null, .parody, and many more. What does it cost to become a part of this new revolution that is sweeping the nation? Nothing.

    I've learned more from the OpenNic developers about how to set up DNS, than I would from any how-to. So if you wanted this Sureal experience say about a year ago, all you had to do was put one of the OpenNic Dns servers in and pointed yourself to http://www.opennic and you would have had the same experience.

    Signing as anonymous because my l/p no longer seem neccessary.

    SuperDuG