Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the rollin'-em-out dept.
babycakes writes "Yesterday ICANN unanimously approved a proposal to add a number of new TLDs, to be determined at a later date. Here's the story on InfoWorld and at the BBC."
Re:Previous plans for more TLD's failed
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dj28
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· Score: 5, Informative
Mods, please check the links of the people you are modding up. In this case, the link in the parent post goes to goatse.cx. Mindless moderation runs so rampant on slashdot.
A.porn domain would be good, if most of the porn was collected under a single TLD it would be easy to block it at schools and so
blocking via domainnames? I think you'd better block via IP, most of those kids are smart enough to figure this out... Anyway the most illegal porn won't be located under http//www.lolita.porn. but under http://fctnts14d017.nbnet.nb.ca/~xydds/ this is why filtering wont work...
Because, quite frankly, the US government created the internet. All other TLDs such as.net,.org, and.com are not limited to US companies and organizations. The same thing most likely applies to the new TLDs that will be proposed. These are just additional TLDs to the already existing country code TLDs.
When will the United States finally have to act like everybody else and use ".us" for sites hosted in the country? I'm sure Microsoft and Netscape would just autocomplete that part, like they do with "http://".
It's not mandatory to use the two-letter country suffixes for non-US sites. For example, jungle.co.uk (an online retailer of computer goods and so on) is just a re-direct to jungle.com, even though they do business exclusively in the UK.
Also, the.US domain has recently been opened up to general use. It's available from a number of different registrars, for example here and here and here, to name a few.
Regarding auto-completing parts of URLs, note that the "http" protocol is universal to web sites. (Well, if you count https, but anybody using that for an entire site will have an unencrypted redirect page if they have the first clue what they're doing.) It is interesting, though, to try different browsers with just random words typed into the location bar. Internet Explorer, for example, will interpret "foobar" as a search term and direct you to a MicroSoft owned search engine where it will search for foobar. Phoenix (and most likely NS7, Beonex, and their common progenitor Mozilla) will assume that you meant http://www.foobar.com/ and send you there.
Re:Kiwi style
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Alethes
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· Score: 3, Informative
.com,.org,.net and.edu can be registered for from any country. It's not like the US is forcing sites located in other countries to use their tld's (as if we could). Also, the reason that it appears that the US has a 'monopoly' on those 4 domains is because the internet started here.
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Re:voluntary censorship by TLD
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mpe
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· Score: 4, Informative
What would really be useful for Internet culture would be a.kid TLD that would be free of content that requires a mature personality to process, such as graphic violence, graphic sex, advertising, etc.
This is sort of the opposite of.porn, with much the same problem of there being no global definition of "child". It would really only make much sense as a secondry or tertiary domain within a geographic TLD. e.g. kid.us, kid.uk, kid.fi, kid.ca.us, etc.
.ws is the country specific extension to Western Samoa. It does NOT (despite what many people may think) stand for 'WebSite'.
Otherwise, a very valid point:) My personal site is currently hosted under the.co.uk extension - whereas it "should" be under.me.uk.
Re:Bad choice of TLDS.
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Greedo
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· Score: 4, Informative
You can no longer be sure that something under.ca has any connection with Canada or that something under.ie has any connection with the Republic of Ireland (Eire)..CA domains can (basically) only be registered by Canadian citizens or residents, companies registered in Canada, or holders of Canadian trademarks.
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Mods, please check the links of the people you are modding up. In this case, the link in the parent post goes to goatse.cx. Mindless moderation runs so rampant on slashdot.
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blocking via domainnames? I think you'd better block via IP, most of those kids are smart enough to figure this out...
Anyway the most illegal porn won't be located under http//www.lolita.porn. but under http://fctnts14d017.nbnet.nb.ca/~xydds/ this is why filtering wont work...
Because, quite frankly, the US government created the internet. All other TLDs such as .net, .org, and .com are not limited to US companies and organizations. The same thing most likely applies to the new TLDs that will be proposed. These are just additional TLDs to the already existing country code TLDs.
I believe it's .kids.us
It's not mandatory to use the two-letter country suffixes for non-US sites. For example, jungle.co.uk (an online retailer of computer goods and so on) is just a re-direct to jungle.com, even though they do business exclusively in the UK.
Also, the .US domain has recently been opened up to general use. It's available from a number of different registrars, for example here and here and here, to name a few.
Regarding auto-completing parts of URLs, note that the "http" protocol is universal to web sites. (Well, if you count https, but anybody using that for an entire site will have an unencrypted redirect page if they have the first clue what they're doing.) It is interesting, though, to try different browsers with just random words typed into the location bar. Internet Explorer, for example, will interpret "foobar" as a search term and direct you to a MicroSoft owned search engine where it will search for foobar. Phoenix (and most likely NS7, Beonex, and their common progenitor Mozilla) will assume that you meant http://www.foobar.com/ and send you there.
You can get a .geek from OpenNIC.
.com, .org, .net and .edu can be registered for from any country. It's not like the US is forcing sites located in other countries to use their tld's (as if we could). Also, the reason that it appears that the US has a 'monopoly' on those 4 domains is because the internet started here.
Don't become a regular here, you will become retarded. -- Yoda the Retard
What would really be useful for Internet culture would be a .kid TLD that would be free of content that requires a mature personality to process, such as graphic violence, graphic sex, advertising, etc.
.porn, with much the same problem of there being no global definition of "child". It would really only make much sense as a secondry or tertiary domain within a geographic TLD. e.g. kid.us, kid.uk, kid.fi, kid.ca.us, etc.
This is sort of the opposite of
.ws is the country specific extension to Western Samoa. It does NOT (despite what many people may think) stand for 'WebSite'.
Otherwise, a very valid point :) My personal site is currently hosted under the .co.uk extension - whereas it "should" be under .me.uk .
You can no longer be sure that something under .ca has any connection with Canada or that something under .ie has any connection with the Republic of Ireland (Eire). .CA domains can (basically) only be registered by Canadian citizens or residents, companies registered in Canada, or holders of Canadian trademarks.
Read CIRA's Canadian Presence Requirements.
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