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ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the open-for-work-and-tourism dept.

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.

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  1. I can't believe they added .jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:I can't believe they added .jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Names by DarkHelmet · · Score: 4, Funny
    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)
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    /^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
  3. I'm thinking... by ImaLamer · · Score: 5, Funny

    blow.jobs
    hand.jobs
    head.jobs

    Wait, let me get my credit card number.

    --
    Get your Unix fortune now!
  4. It's not a dupe! by CHESTER+COPPERPOT · · Score: 5, Funny
    "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.

  5. Can we have a .dot, too while you're at it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would greatly improve slashdot's domain.

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

  6. Re:Are these really useful? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  7. No no no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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! :)