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Two New TLD's Near Approval
Iphtashu Fitz writes "The Associated Press is reporting that ICANN is nearing approval of two new top level domains: .travel and .post. The Universal Postal Union in Bern, Switzerland, wants ".post" for national postal services, local post offices, business partners and stamp collectors around the world. Private companies that provide postal services, such as Federal Express and UPS, also would be eligible. The Travel Partnership Corp., a New York-based trade group, seeks ".travel" for travel agents, airlines, bed and breakfast operators, tourism bureaus and others in the travel industry. ICANN is also considering eight other TLD's including .asia, .eu, and .jobs but they haven't progressed as far as .travel and .post. More information here."
They come up with TLDs as useless as .museum. Bravo!
I'll register the first.post domain.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
first.post
I'm going to register www.first.post as soon as it's available......
Why isn't there a
What do you think
.ENOUGHALREADY
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I call first.post
Because all music on the net is stolen, you damn pirate!
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
What about .slash or .dot?
FoundNews.com - get paid to blog.,
cause Windows would try to open it in Quicktime for windows...it would be really annoying
~slashdot are my only freinds ):
.omgwtfbbq?
Who doesn't like free music?
I have no idea what the Belgium post office thinks it can accomplish with the .post TLD. If they think they can get people's minds to believe "Oh, that's a postal facility, I'll check under .post first", well, maybe they're right, but I wouldn't bet on it.
.post domain is only reinforcing the idea in my mind that icann should be spelt icant.
The belgian post office's website is known simply as www.post.be. But now that they can scoop up www.be.post, I'm sure their site will be much, much easier to find.
This
At least this provides the opportunity for more silly domain puns. Maybe, if it's as unregulated as .com, .net, and all those other general hierarchies, it'll even be abused by newspapers -- think washington.post, newyork.post, etc.
.adult or .porn or .xxx TLD. If pr0n sites were required to use those, or at least any new ones, it would make blocking access by children vastly easier. The browser or blocking software can just check the URL. ... On the other hand, I would like to see ICRA ratings more widely adopted and supported. There's more flexibility.
.porn TLD. That would also make things a lot easier for people searching for porn.
.secx TLD. Then all the se.cx sites can move there, and finally, the .cx TLD shall be free to be a home for domains of legitimate relevance to, or located in, Christmas Island. If there are any, which there probably aren't.
.slash TLD, just so someone can get orgdot.slash, and create an Elgoog-style mirror of Slashdot. (Of course, it will probably end up being taken over by trolls from the American Association of White Female Women, the mirror GNAA...)
Actually, that would make for nicer URLs, but it's just not right...
In all seriousness, maybe there should be a legally-regulated
But still make a
While I'm throwing around domain-name ideas in a post that will probably be moderated -1 Silly And Rambling anyway, how about a
Also, we need a
Signature.
Y'know, I'm really sure I don't want to know where that's going to go today.
John
So now Steve Jobs needs his own TLD?
Wake me up when there is a .geek domain.
I reckon .cum would be way better than .xxx or .porn