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ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's
EyeMyke writes "As reported on News.com, ICANN has approved the .jobs and .travel domains, and is pending decision on .asia, .mail, .tel, and .xxx. One has to ask 'Will these new domains actually prove useful, or is ICANN just avoiding the real issues confronting them in regards to regulating domain registration?'" We've covered both of these domains before, but it would seem they are even more-approved now, or at least the process is important enough to warrant an official announcement from ICANN.
Why does steve.jobs need a whole TLD? That man sure has an ego!
Does anybody really use their last lot of domains, such as .info and .coop? I very, very rarely see either getting any use, to be honest.
Hmmn.. how much do I stand to make if I register steve.jobs?
what, what?
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
TLDs should not be restricted in this way. It creates an artificial shortage which simply acts as a tax. Is there any technical reason why TLDs cannot be created by anyone with the capability?
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blow.jobs
hand.jobs
head.jobs
Wait, let me get my credit card number.
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Clearly, monster.jobs is required, because monster.com has had such a low hit rate. And I suppose a few others. So we've created a top level domain for about 4 or 5 sites total.
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I don't really understand the point of a .xxx tld. You can usually tell from a domain name if you should be loading the url or not, it isn't like everything will be forced to use .xxx once the new tld exists.. unless..
.xxx is to force adult web sites into using it, how long until adult sites are sued into the ground for using other tlds? What if I'm running a french or italian language site with occasional boobies on it on a .com tld, would some tool force me onto a .xxx? Or even a .uk site?
.xxx is perhaps more stupid than the entire artificial tld scarcity bit.
If the point of
Blarg.
Whoah, back off people he's just applied a +4 magical dupe shield. Now we can't use our 4th level 'Cry of dupe' scroll.
Two reasons I think these new domains won't make a huge impact. ;) .COM is largely seen as the sole TLD around which the web is based. .mail, .asia and .xxx etc become available, people with .com domains would be seen as old timers in the field. I remember icann also approved of .pro. How many people do you know who actually use .pro? These extra TLD's are just another way of generating revenue for registrars. People who couldn't get sex.com and gave up on other names will want to grab sex.xxx in the future. Thats when google will be come a heavyweight in domain registration....
First because people can spell whitehouse.com better than whitehouse.xxx, due to the O
Second,
When
It would greatly improve slashdot's domain.
http://slashdot.dot sounds great. Like morse code or something.
I see .biz/.info in spam all the time.
Oh damn, I've depressed myself.
What we REALLY need is a .blog and force them all onto it so we can exclude them from search results.
:)
Plus it'd be really easy for goverments to censor them all in one fell swoop!
They're going to need to institute some sort of checking for duplicate 2nd level domain qualifiers to prevent all the additional problems with domain squatting. When you do that, you effectively only have one TLD. So slashdot.org, slashdot.com, slashdot.net, slashdot.xxx, slashdot.travel, ... are all the same. Or should they be?
sales at ICANN members must be declining. What medium to large company isn't going to register .jobs? Those that dont will generate lots of billable hours for their lawyers.
But I'm probably just seeing the glass as half full aren't I?
So ICANN now decide to make things worse, as if it wasn't bad enough. First they allow any damned fools to take over a domain that's not suitable and now they even add an xxx suffix? Is that what the Internet is about? Jobs, leisure and pr0n? It's about time the Internet adopted a tree strcuture. This shouldn't have been such a mess to begin with.
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It's always annoyed me how companies must register two or three domains, to pull in the users that only know .com. If you are a .org (like Slashdot) it's best to register a .com as well, so lost visitors get to your site that way as well; if you're a .co.uk (like the BBC) you also need a .com for the same reason. It shows that the TLD idea wasn't thought through, or was designed to make people register many domains, generating loads of money (not best for the end-user).
.jobs domain. But not many people have heard of .jobs, so it has to get a .com as well. But why do we need these - what's wrong with 'http://monster' by itself? It should go to the main monster jobs page. If I wanted country-specific sites, I would go to the monster.co.uk or monster.de subdivisions. Categorising things by their status just confuses things.
Citing monster.com as an example again: it is a jobs site, so it should get a
I shouldn't care whether the site I want is a network, a company, or a non-profit organisation; usually I just want to get to the site.
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At this point the tld does not make any sense anymore. Sites are (were) classified in 2 big categories:
.de, .au, .uk, etc..) .com, .net, .edu)
.com, .org, .net identified Commercial sites, Organization sites (usually non-profit), .net i really never understood and .edu represent educational institues. So the .info was missing (but is largely unused) and they added it. Now .travel, .jobs etc are just confusing. How do i distinguish a travel agency from a informational site on travels from the TLD if they have the same TLD? This put in the same category completely different sites. I really thing the travel agency should be .com and the info site should be .info. Also .biz for me is a misterious entity because it could be interpreted as .com.
.info in my mind. Or .dupes, but that is another story.
- By language (.it,
- By kind (and assumed language was english (.org,
The first category is ok and works well. But then we come to the second. Having these 4 original category:
So why can't people just use the 2nd level domain to describe who they are? The TLD is already composed of enough entries to distinguish the category.
Slashdot should be
would take you by surprise in a quick takeover but it would leave a nasty taste in your mouth.
Yes, absolutely - these new TLDs will allow registrars like GodAddy to ding everyone a little more when they defensively protect their namespace from alternate TLD squatters. It's brilliant.
.com2, .com3, .comX.
Now they just need to add
It is time to dump the .COM and othe meaningless now meaningless TLD.
.IBM not .IBM.COM
.IBM.US then .IBM.CA.US then .IBM.LA.CA.US
Let the UN take ICANN over and start selling global trademarks. So IBM becomes just
With that local trademarks set right under...
Below is one of several posts I made on Domain Name Policy List back in 2000 and to the Public Comment Forum regarding New TLD Applications.
.SEX, .XXX, .KIDS TLDs Restrict Freedom of Speech
.SEX & .XXX TLDs:
.SEX and .XXX seem well intentioned as a way of partitioning off adult oriented materials from minors, etc.
.SEX and .XXX only.
.SEX and .XXX will probably result in ICANN dictating content too.
.KIDS TLD:
.KIDS too...
.KIDS will probably result in ICANN dictating content too.
.SEX, .XXX, and .KIDS TLDs are well intentioned, all three of these TLDs are all primarily intended to *restrict* content as opposed to merely categorizing it. It's very important to keep this distinction in mind when considering new .TLDs.
.SEX, .XXX, and .KIDS TLDs would do and thus they should *not* be added.
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 23:52:50 -0400
Sender: Owner-Domain-Policy
From: Ron Bennett
Subject: [ICANN COMMENT]
To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.NETSOL.COM
First the problems with the proposed
The proposed TLDs
But how does one exactly define adult oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa.
And what happens when ICANN or whoever decides to go the next step and restricts adult oriented materials to *only* certain TLDs - for example
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
In the end TLDs such as
In regards to problems with the proposed
Many of the same points above apply to
How does one exactly define kid oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa. For example, nudity in many parts of the world such as parts of Europe and Japan is not considered harmful to children. On the other hand, violence aimed at children is widely tolerated in the United States, but not content containing nudity.
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
And as I said above, in the end TLDs such as
TLDs should be used to better categorize content, but not to restrict it. While
Bottom line is that TLDs should be for categorizing content, not restricting content which is what the proposed
Ron Bennett
bennett@wyomissing.com
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More posts and comments by others involved in domain name policy regarding these issues:
http://www.circleid.com/article/530_0_1_0_C/
..Or perhaps any other tld that people use for private netspaces? What then happens?
Sorry, I posted this comment under my other, bad account. :(
I've thought for a long time that a mandate should be made that all porn sites be restricted to using the .xxx TLD. This way, parents looking to protect their kids don't have a hard time (just block .xxx from URLs) and people who want the porn have an easy time finding it...google for "site:.xxx". It puts all the NetNanny type software companies out of business, though.
While I applaud the .xxx TLD simply because I'm a male, I'm not sure it's going to help resolve any namespace conflicts. After all, one of the main reasons for adding new TLDs is because the old ones are getting too crowded (the other reason for this one being easy filtering). But the thing is, girlswithhorses.com is probably going to be just as pornographic as girlswithhorses.xxx. Can anyone actually think of a case (besides spoof sites like whitehouse.xxx or motel6.xxx that ride their .com counterparts' coattails) where this is going to resolve anything?
the owners of www.blow.com would certainly want to snap up the equivilent .info and .jobs tld...
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(Personally, I almost never care where a domain is hosted, because I use Google to search for my "bookmarks" and rarely type-in domain URLs manually. The new TLDs are just a limited opportunity for registrars to print new money, IMO.)
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i think .mail will be useful but i dont see any tld's like .bank, .isp, etc so i dont think .travel is a good idea (who paid them for that?)
I had a nice Anti-semitic friend who said he tried to order "je.ws" but it was "taken"...
this was his slick way of reminding me I was jewish, which only bothered him and not me. I knew he was lying because I already tried to register a **.ws domain and I was told it was too short.
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Where can I register the .bull and the .crap TLD's?
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and required all porn sites to relocate.
This would allow significant advances in porn distribution as it would be very easy to put the entire TLD om mbone and you can bet they's be willing to pay for mbone if it weren't such a friggin can of worms to coordinate.
He said BONE!
Check out what spammers will resort to if this passes:
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Hey! Check out this cool website!
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They're usually on spams. You know, the kind that wants you to think that citicorp.biz is the Citicorp web site and therefore you should give them your password and credit card. (As far as I can tell there is no citicorp.biz, actually, but you get the idea.)
.com name but some local consultant thought that FooCorp would be a cool name. Not fraudulent, but just a latecomer.
.biz web site if I can help it, and if dice.com and hotjobs.com want to open dice.jobs and hot.jobs, go ahead, but when I need to I'll go through the dot-com domain.
Actually, I see it most often on business cards from extremely small businesses. The kind where FooCorp has taken the
Like another poster said, I never give personal info to a
But what is your definition of pornography? is it going to be the same as Howard Stern's definition of pornography? is it going to be the same as the Relgious Right's definition? A lot of legitimate art contains nudity, or representations thereof - should art galleries be forced into the .xxx category? What about plastic surgery clinic websites with 'before' and 'after' pictures of things such as breast enlargement?
.xxx domain (it would sure make managing the blocklist for the average large UK college easier, *ahem*), but there is a lot of overlap and disagreement over what constitutes 'pornography' or 'objectionable content', and I don't think one organization or committee should be handed that much power, especially with the way the Religious Right controls much of the power in America.
.xxx bandwagon - hardcore pornography needs to be kept away from kids, but a dedicated TLD for 'objectional content' is the first step on a very slippery slope.
Sure, filtering out hardcore pornography would be made a lot easier if all sites were forced to use the
I'm personally of the opinion that the only person capable of making a judgement about what your kids can and can't see is you, and handing the power to do so over to a government committee is just letting the government raise your children for you, which would be a sad, sad day for parenthood. Just look at the furore Janet Jackson's nipple-slip caused amongst the Religious Right, who found it perfectly alright to proudly show 'shock and awe' footage of cities being devastated on prime-time TV - are these the people you want dictating what's right and wrong for your children to see? I consider the desensitizing effect of proudly showing off the devastation of enemies at war far more damaging to young minds than the odd celebrity nipple-slip
A lot of people in the world have a seriously messed-up system of morals, and they've already got far too much power - don't jump on the
Dealing with lawyers would be a lot less tedious if they all looked like Casey Novak.
its know well on adult webmaster communities that if a .xxx was introduced, it would just produce clones of .com and .net names using affiliate codes or copies.
.xxx would create a mass rush, and mean people losing domains they rightfully should own
The proposed act to force adult sites to use
Business Voyeur
In light of the fact this is a Republican-era economy and a Bush economy in particular (Reagan was never this bad) I propose the following TLDs:
I am absolutely appalled at this decision to create more TLDs. Not only will they create more confusion for the end user, but they will also make it much more expensive for companies to secure their name on the Internet. Why should I have to buy 10 domains with different TLDs to make sure that nobody will try and rip off my company's name online? Anyhow... how many sites do you actually *trust* with a .info domain? Most of them appear to be stupid advertisement link sites. There is no reason that we need any more than the basic TLDs we've always had... .com, .net, .org, .edu. .gov and of course the country domains (.uk, .nz, etc).
It seems to me as though ICANN is being motivated to do this for unethical reasons. I can only hope that the community will understand how stupid this is and fight back.
.howlongwillthesetldsget ?
Note: If a web server doesn't answer. If awful.jobs resolves to an IP address, but the server goes down, the site at awful.jobs.com will get the traffic. So the owners of jobs.com could grab all .jobs scatter from typos or servers down.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Make no mistake, dot triple X is very dangerous. This fight has been fought before, but today without the conscience of the net's early pioneers .. we are heading into trouble.
.xxx, however start up pr0n sites will realize it's easier to market the website with dot triple x. This is where the positive aspects of dot triple X end. Then the negative scenario emerges, some parent will stumble across playboy.com and their kid who they're supposed to be watching will come into the room and see it .. and they will claim the kid is traumatized for life now.
....
.. "All websites that contain indecent or pornographic content must be delegated to .XXX"
.. Massive number of religious people protest the lawsuit saying God wouldn't want pornography to exist .. ACLU loses .. the supreme court finds no reason why websites cant be forced into .XXX, after all .. the argument will say .. strip clubs can be forced into designated areas.
.XXX, well some content is immoral and distasteful .. maybe those will be forced into .XXX or some other domain ".pariah" ? who knows.
.. the same kid walks in on this.
.XXX and .pariah content to avoid lawsuits.
.XXX websites. This tracking information will only be archived, so as to not violate the fourth amendment. Only in cases where crime is suspected will the data be looked at.
If the dot triple X domain is approved, the following worst case scenario is possible.
I don't believe it will actually happen because so far, the people have always held freedom of speech up to be very important.
Note, this is a worst case scenario. I don't believe it's all that likely to happen.
Popular websites, such as playboy.com, will not switch to
Then you have the lawsuit.
"I thought it was a safe site cause it was a dot com!"
Maybe an intelligent judge will throw it out of the courtroom?
But then you have the up and coming legislators out to get a few extra votes.
The "Freedom Using Controlled Knowledge" Act.
HR 31337
ACLU sues the government
All content deemed pornographic is in
Next move, the same parent goes to playboy.xxx
"Why doesnt my ISP block this??"
ISPs start blocking
Next move, the same parent goes to goes to a kiddie porn website.
New agency starts tracking everyone who goes to
Congress sees this as a good thing, and assures everyone that the fourth amendment is alive and well in some dungeon somewhere safely in their control.
Small minority of net users use encryption and pseudonymity schemes to communicate freely, these people are branded potential terrorists and pornographers. Those who use encryption excessively are marked as being involved in illegal activity and as having something to hide.
Ultimately though, pornography will survive but freedom will die.
This is just a worst case, I believe the people's will to freedom will prevent the worst case from happening.
C'mon, what about boob.jobs? This is Slashdot after all . . .
blog
Why not .europe, .africa, .australia, .northamerica, and .southamerica as well?
OK so who is going to be the first to register blow.jobs?
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If you use Firefox... Go to www.jobs... monster.com owns that site.
One has to ask, will these new domains actually prove useful, or is ICANN just avoiding the real issues confronting them in regards to regulating domain registration?
... all more or less the same except for the packaging.
Or, is ICANN just printing up more scrip for the company store? Minting new tokens, marketing them to collectors? Inventing a new fantasy baseball team in order to sell baseball cards?
Yesterday we could choose from five types of breakfast cereal, all more or less same other than packaging. Today we pick from fifty different kinds of breakfast cereal
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I feel a sudden urge to go and register rim.jobs ..
I wonder how much it'd cost me?
goatsec.xxx or goatc.xxx
hand.jobs
time.travel
youth-in.asia
hot.mail
hot.xxx
in.tel
ordering-wives-from.asia
etc, etc...
Remember children, all generalizations are wrong.
A lack of enforcement has already clouded the meaning of TLDs at this point such that new ones won't really add any clarity to the situation. So they may as well add new ones. It'll start to look like a USENET news group list. Maybe that's not all bad.
People and organiztaions will continue to register to the TLDs that are best known, and domain names will always be confusing to the garden variety web surfer.
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
The shortest TLDs are 2-letter ccTLDs. Why don't we consider 1 letter TLDs as well: .a, .b, etc...?
Incidentally, the german telecom, which changes names like a chameleon every now and then, called itself something like t... a few years ago (or they used this as a logo?), and they seriously asked if they could register 't...' as a domain name. Oh well, they've changed names again since then.
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Seems a bit arbitrary to me. Why not have dot-freedom, dot-books, dot-stupidity...? How are they coming up with these TLDs?
Forgive my ignorance but isn't the DNS hierarchy a throwback to the days when bandwidth was low and most data was kept in flat files?
With modern database technology and highspeed connectivity how difficult would it be to map an IP address to any name with or without any number of dots distributed over a couple of hundred strategically placed name servers? Like a global telephone book.
I think these have always been arbitrary, since anyone can get a
While
Tag lost or not installed.
I mean, it seems the majority use of such .new and .odd domain names is by spammers/scammers. There's wusb.fm, but the station apparently already had wusb.org which forwards to the same page anyway. Seems redundant to me.
.com domains, with .net and .org of the same name registered just to prevent squatters.
Is there any real reason for these? It seems the demans remains for
Tag lost or not installed.
(because they are Atlanta's ONLY polka band, but I digress)... named The Dots. They like to say "We have a website, it's dubya dubya dubya dot dot dot com."
But of course that's not really their website.
Tag lost or not installed.
It is kind of useful to use the google inurt directive to use a lazy keyword and restrict your results to .edu or .org...
steve.jobs is registered and pointed to a gay porn site
Is the internet becoming bloated?
.com which is widely known
.org, .net, .info, .jobs,... If the registrars would fucking obey the rules then maybe it would make sense.
.net sites that are completely offtopic (like torrents.net)
.jobs, .kids,... is a complete waste and only confuses us. 5 years from now we won't even know what to type in. Em, slashdot.net, no that's a porn site, slashdot.info, no that's already reserved, slashdot.kids, another porn site,...
.com for anyone (slashdot.com), .org for (real) non-profit organizations (unesco.org), .net for inet providers (aol.net) and .xxx for porn - so parents can filter them out easily and disable kinds from going to .xxx, set permissions in browser,...
- we have localized domains (.de, uk,...) which is good
- we have
No why do we need
.net should only be allowed for internet and email providers (as it was intended), but there are loads of
.com should be allowed for anyone to register, but there should be rules on how many domains a company/person can register. Instead people go off and buy 1000+ domain names in hopes that maybe someday, someone will need one so you can sell it for 10x the original price.
.org is useless. Seriously. It was intended as a domain for non-profit organizations (like the red cross, unesco,...) and I don't think I need to point out where it got to (/.).
.info,
The same is with 'www.' - can someone point out a real reason why we need it? AFAIK and I did my research there is absolutely nothing useful about the www. thing. The only useful thing I found is that you at least remember where the 'w' is on the keyboard because you have to type it every fucking time.
In a perfect world there would only
That all sound good but if this would happen 2 years from it would be the same as it is today, because the registrars are to stupid to set some real rules on domains.
I don't know about you, but I find myself typing a lot less URL's these days. Google gets used a lot. Firefox makes the address bar an I'm-feeling-lucky search if it can't resolve it, so you dont have to worry about monster.com/.jobs/.net/.porn you simply just say "monster jobs" and it goes there.
is because historically different services would be on different machines
so www. would be the main public web server
ftp. the ftp archive
irc. the chat server
and so on
email avoided the need for this by using a special record type in dns (the mx record)
there are srv records which were designed to do a similar thing for other services but virtually no software supports them.
nowadays the dominance of the web means that domain.com often points to the same place as www.domain.com but this is NOT always the case.
I personally prefer the use of .cum instead of .xxx.
I mean, it makes sense, it's closer in spelling and pronunciation to .com...
You don't see spam coming from .coop.
;)
.pro, which is reserved for lawyers, accountants, dentists, etc.
.coop has a lot of traction. Probably a lot more than .pro. .biz, .info, etc. have no registrant eligibility criteria and no registrant verification. Ergo, it fills up with spammers.
.coop registry, put in a very interesting bid for .org when the contracts were coming up.
.org and it would have been administered collectively -- eg. registrants could collectively vote on the administration of the TLD. They lost, however.
Potential registrants are are required to go through a verification process to prove they are bona fide co-operatives before they can register domains in the TLD.
I don't know of any co-operative spam operations
Similar rules exist for
Within the co-operative sector,
PopTel.coop, who operates the
It would have required nonprofit use for registrants in
.com and a handful of others won. A few "novelty" country TLDs have cachet in a few places (.cx, .tv, .nu), but otherwise, it's over. No business in its right mind wants to have to educate customers not to type in ".com" but to put in ".(some business)" instead. They don't want to buy another domain either.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
domains.xml updated. Now including the .CAT domain! *groan*
(as usual, don't whine about well-formedness/lack thereof)
For instance, there has been a definite lack of companies jumping on board the Cook Island's .co.ck domain.
For one, how do you determine what is offensive for children? Hard core sex? any nudity at all? Where would playboy go? Maxium?
Secondly, once said system is in place, censorship becomes much much easier.
And lastly, whats to stop a kid from typing in the IP? Renaming the hardcoresex.xxx to myresearch.edu in the hosts file? You don't think kids can figure this out (or be shown how to do it by others)?
It seems doomed to fail. Why not just sit with your children, and accept the fact that seeing sex, a natural human action, won't destroy them.
The real problem is that now, there are lots of .coms that should have been other things. Everybody thinks that a web address needs to end in .com. In my opinion, there should be TLDs for each category of thing, and it should take into consideration the fact that the Internet spans the globe.
Country domain names should be used for the purposes of the governments and official entities of those countries. There should be TLDs for individuals, businesses, various types of devices that need a domain name for themselves, that aren't an individual or a business, and then specialized TLDs for various categories of businesses.
Ask any librarian about categorizations. It's already difficult to group books in good categories. How much more difficult would it be to group everything in meaningful categories? The Hitchhiker's Guide would get it right, but ICANN is not Ursa Minor! Furthermore, categorizations are inherently dynamic: a web site that was in CAT A would be in a few months in CAT Z. And add to this that many sites fit into many categories at the same time. Should they use multiple TLDs?
The only reasonable model would be to get rid of categories at all and use a flat namespace. Currently, .com/.net/.org, but especially .com (and in some countries their ccTLD) are already playing the role of a flat namespace. Getting rid of ccTLDs and gTLDs in favor of a real flat namespace (10^9 names in the root!) is not such a real big step at all.
Not that I'm seriously advocating it!
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Is there any technical reason why TLDs cannot be created by anyone with the capability?
.com moves up one level and soon the masses will be complaining that it is too hard to get a decent domain name at the root anymore. Only this time, expansion will be impossible.
Yes, because doing so would collapse the hierarchy. If everone can get a top level domain, then everyone will want one.
It may sound strange, but new TLD's only increase the size of the name space if their supply is limited.
But what is your definition of pornography?
.xxx category?
Porn gets you excited and the probability of you jerking off to it is very high.
A lot of legitimate art contains nudity, or representations thereof - should art galleries be forced into the
Beauty is another very abstract thing, but a nude picture (even Playboy style) is not at least in my book porn.
What about plastic surgery clinic websites with 'before' and 'after' pictures of things such as breast enlargement?
This too is not for excitement. It is for getting more bucks into the plastic surgeons pocket.
I'm personally of the opinion that the only person capable of making a judgement about what your kids can and can't see is you
True, but lets make damn sure that every child never, ever, ever, makes a typo in an URL. Hell, or even you as the parent in front of your child.
Although this could go way too far to "protect the children". Let me tell you, no child is going to explode or have any other real physical or emotional problem. But its simply awkward, and something that a child simply does not understand. I would image that most all parents still have sex. I have never heard anywhere from anyone where it was customary for parents to have sex in front of their children. Kinda like they don't push calculus or physics on children either. Its just simply not something that they are ready or capable of understanding.
Hell, I was 19 years old and still did not understand anal sex.
steve.jobs
.travel, hmmm and is meant for .travel agencies or for tourism boards... ok maybe this one could serve a purpose.
.xxx is stupid, it serves no point other than pointing out it's smut.
.asia, why the fuck does Asia need it's own TLD? Is it because there so huge? Or are asian countries domains too overcrowed
.mail why not just get better spam filters?
.mobi just points out it's a mobile phone company
.tel, there's two versions, you expect to type out a number that fucking long? The second, it seems the same, I dunno. Maybe this will serve some use.
.post, do postal authorites really need there own website, well then again. USPS gets an advantage. So I guess so.
.cat, why does a language get a domain, what next? .eng, .esp? Also, they could be abused by cat owners.
These are my opinons, these tlds stink!!! Even the W3 agress! http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLDIn America, you spam computers In Soviet Russia, computers spam you!
[rant] Freedom is Good, but too much freedom in the wrong places is dumb. Censorship is bad for our culture, but unrestrained vulgarity (in the name of 'free speech', no less) is just as bad. Free speech is about being allowed to petition your government for redress of grievances (without getting executed), not the right to plaster your pasty white ass to a car window. Walking around pissing people off and giving the finger to the government because they can't do anything about it is childish. Have some fucking morals. [/rant]
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"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
It seems doomed to fail. Why not just sit with your children, and accept the fact that seeing sex, a natural human action, won't destroy them.
Do you have any children?
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No, and its irrelevent.
I was a child, I did see hardcore porn, and I turned out just fine.
Are you suggesting that having children removes any sense of reason and blocks out your own childhood?
No, and its irrelevent.
:) I don't even know how to respond to that one. :)
Irrelevent? Isn't that a bit like saying:
"You need to change the oil in a car to keep it running."
"No I don't!"
"Do you even own a car?"
"No, and its irrelevent."
I think you have to have at least one child before you are qualified to have a reasonable opinion on the matter...or work with kids who have been addicted to porn. Something. ANYTHING.
I was a child, I did see hardcore porn, and I turned out just fine.
With all due respect, it depends largely on what you call "fine". I'm sure Osama Bin Laden thinks he's "fine".
Are you suggesting that having children removes any sense of reason and blocks out your own childhood?
You're as bad as a woman with these logical leap fallicies.
"You need to change the oil in a car to keep it running."
:) I don't even know how to respond to that one. :)
"No I don't!"
"Do you even own a car?"
"No, and its irrelevent."
Good job there, comparing something that is a proven fact (not chaning oil WILL damage your car) to something not proven (there's not experiment to prove that viewing porn is harmful to children). I suggest you drop the analogies now and stick to the topic at hand.
I think you have to have at least one child before you are qualified to have a reasonable opinion on the matter...or work with kids who have been addicted to porn. Something. ANYTHING.
Why? Having BEEN a child myself doesn't qualify me? Growing up with other children with similar expierience disqualifies me?
Do you now need to be a director to determine if a movie is poorly directed? How about art? I can't tell whats bad art because I'm not a master painter?
Get over yourself, knocking up a girl doesn't prove you know anything.
With all due respect, it depends largely on what you call "fine". I'm sure Osama Bin Laden thinks he's "fine".
Oh of course, I have an opinion different than yours, so I"m terrorist. Get a clue dumbass.
You're as bad as a woman with these logical leap fallicies.
I'm not the one making logical leap fallicies. You must be a parent to have any clue at all, attempting to link me to a terrorist master mind, or that something which can be scientifically proven is at all analogous to something which is not.
And it would appear you're sexist as well. Tell me again, who's the one with the problem?