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ICANN to Incorporate TLDs Already In-use?

Posted by Cliff on from the where-do-we-go-we-just-don't-know dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I recently found an article at cnn.com about ICANN considering new top level domains. Some of the proposed TLDs have already been introduced by YOUCANN such as .xxx and have been available to the public at select registrars such as new.net for quite some time. If ICANN incorporates already existing TLDs how will this impact those who have already registered for domain on these TLDs? What implications does this have and how will the ramifications impact how businesses view and utilize the web?"

12 of 262 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The Wild Wild Web is born again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The question people really want answered is did ICANN off John Postel?

  2. Good question! by glrotate · · Score: 0, Funny

    I'd suggest submitting to Ask Slashdot.

  3. Re:Huh by System.out.println() · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, that would create http://bigm.ess

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  4. Um, ICAAN will just make a big mess? by loggia · · Score: 4, Funny

    If ICANN incorporates already existing TLDs how will this impact those who have already registered for domain on these TLDs?

    Um, ICAAN will just ignore the other registrars?

    Um, ICAAN will have a meeting in [nice country to visit]?

    Um, ICAAN will see if we need another museum TLD?

    And so on..?

  5. Re:The Wild Wild Web is born again... by mat+catastrophe · · Score: 3, Funny

    "so we may end up seeing a wave of malware trying to monkey with a users DNS settings so that their sponsor's regisitry becomes the first one consulted."

    Funny, I thought new.net was malware.

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  6. Re:Help! by loggia · · Score: 2, Funny

    I emailed you the info...

  7. Down with TLDs! by xoran99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I say we just memorize IP addresses from now on. From "Hey, run a Google on him." to "Hey, run a 24.175.19.234 on him."

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    1. Re:Down with TLDs! by notamac · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's going to be an even better idea when IPv6 hits the streets:

      "Hey, run a 6ab7:26bf:800b:eaf0:127e:baff:9091:6542 on him"

      Actually... might be kind of fun trying to watch TV "celebs" try to rattle this off at the end of a show.

    2. Re:Down with TLDs! by CritterNYC · · Score: 4, Funny

      I say we just memorize IP addresses from now on. From "Hey, run a Google on him." to "Hey, run a 24.175.19.234 on him."

      And with IPv6 it will be even easier:

      Is someone using this product name? Let's 3ffe:abcd:1234:9876::d8ef:3364 it.

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    3. Re:Down with TLDs! by Rakarra · · Score: 2, Funny
      I say we just memorize IP addresses from now on. From "Hey, run a Google on him." to "Hey, run a 24.175.19.234 on him."

      There's an idea! But that's a lot to remember, so maybe we could print them out in a large book with lines like "Google Corp website: 24.175.19.234". With the changes in ip addresses, we'll most likely have to appoint some organization to update the book and send out new ones. We could call it the Internet Corporation of Assigned Numbers. (ICAN) That would solve all the ICANN problems!

  8. So should I..... by sofakingon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Register goatse.xxx now or later??????

  9. YouCANN - ICANN by spellraiser · · Score: 2, Funny

    The purpose of YouCANN is simple. It goes like this:

    YouCANN: You CANN use .xxx as a TDL.

    ICANN: I CANN? Great, thanks!

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