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.

Comments

I can't believe they added .jobs

[Anonymous Coward]

Why does steve.jobs need a whole TLD? That man sure has an ego!

Re:I can't believe they added .jobs

[Anonymous Coward]

Because we've decided to ban him from the rest of the internet.

Re:I can't believe they added .jobs

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry - .nojobs is coming out shortly, they are just looking for somewhere to outsource it to.

Re:I can't believe they added .jobs

[over_exposed]

Quick! Someone register www.steve.jobs and see how fast you get sued!

Squatting?

[CkB_Cowboy]

Hmmn.. how much do I stand to make if I register steve.jobs?

Names

[DarkHelmet]

I for one can't wait until they approve .xxx. Here are a list of names I would snag up, both xxx and otherwise.

1. whitehouse.xxx (It would of course refer to clinton as president... it HAS to)
2. britneyspears.xxx (Imagine the hits you could get to a site like this)
3. g.mail (nuff said)
4. euthan.asia
5. steve.jobs
6. michaeljackson.xxx (Because I want the FBI at my door)

I'm thinking...

[ImaLamer]

blow.jobs
hand.jobs
head.jobs


Wait, let me get my credit card number.

Re:I'm thinking...

[Performaman]

What if the company that makes the BlackBerry, RIM, were to register a .jobs domain?

It's not a dupe!

[CHESTER COPPERPOT]

"We've covered both of these domains before, but it would seem they are even more-approved now"

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.

Can we have a .dot, too while you're at it?

[Anonymous Coward]

It would greatly improve slashdot's domain.

http://slashdot.dot sounds great. Like morse code or something.

Re:Can we have a .dot, too while you're at it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Going by recent content, Slashdot would want to set up this server:

dot.dot---dot.dot

Re:Can we have a .dot, too while you're at it?

[zaxios]

http: slash slash slash dot dot dot

Fabulous! Typing that URL is a superb introduction to Slashdot's essentially redundant nature. Soon you'll be posting stories that rephrase actual news sites, enjoying CmdrTaco repost them, reaffirming the evils of draconian copyright law in any mildly appropriate article and reusing the Soviet Russia meme. It all starts with the slash, followed by a slash, followed by yet another slash.

Re:Are these really useful?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know, but I think we ought to add some extra TLDs to make things clear: .spware .scam .ripoff

etc.

And for ICANN, .kerching

No no no

[Anonymous Coward]

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! :)

Re:Not enough

[0x461FAB0BD7D2]

Google would take over, with a crappy interface.

Re:Are these really useful?

[Anonymous Coward]

.info is reserved for websites that have actual, usable information. That's why you see so few of them around the net.

Re:Monster.jobs?

[Just Some Guy]

You've nailed it exactly. Supposedly, each company will want to rush out to register example.jobs in addition to example.com, but that's just dumb. What's so hard about www.example.com/jobs, or jobs.example.com for that matter?

I can't imagine a big push by webmasters to move their visitors off their primary websites onto another domain. They'd suddenly have a pack of extra issues to deal with, like realizing that their current authentication cookies that are set for .example.com won't carry across to their new site.

I can almost see the utility in adding a small set of additional TLDs (as opposed to opening the TLDs and being done with it), but the ones they pick are invariably stupid special-interest projects that maybe 15 people will use. I could understand one for, say, .rest for the millions of restaurants out there. Why they labor and strive to bring us .giantballofstring is beyond me.

Well...

[RPD9803]

the owners of www.blow.com would certainly want to snap up the equivilent .info and .jobs tld...

Re:.xxx is potentially bad news.

[YrWrstNtmr]

I really believe someone is going to eventually introduce legislation forcing adult content onto .xxx, or something specific, and I think that's a mistake.

Exactly. And one man's adult content is another man's vacation photos from a topless beach.

Who'll be first to register...

[O-SUSHi]

goatsec.xxx or goatc.xxx
hand.jobs
time.travel
youth-in.asia
hot.mail
hot.xxx
in.tel
ordering-wives-from.asia
etc, etc...

Re:At this point...

[shutdown -p now]

.l337~h4XX0r

New Zealand has .geek.nz for that