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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. Re:Are these really useful? by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 3, Informative

    The address of the New York Subway system (also called the MTA) is www.mta.info.

    John.

  2. Re:Not enough by way2trivial · · Score: 4, Informative

    and indeed, research public dns servers some time.

    you'll find there are MANY alternate tld schemes, including one which was using .biz- and that got destroyed by icann..

    http://support.open-rsc.org/.servers/
    You can freely use any of these servers instead of your ISP's nameservers if you want to be able to see ALL the domain names on the net, not just the ones in the US Government controlled nameservers. You will, of course be able to see all the "old" domain names like .com, but you'll also be able to see all the ORSC new top level domains, too. If you need instructions on how to use these please see
    for one example.

    --
    every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
  3. Re:Can we have a .dot, too while you're at it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    It would be http://slash.dot, you insensitive clod!

  4. Re:At this point... by Adelbert · · Score: 3, Informative

    At this point the tld does not make any sense anymore. Sites are (were) classified in 2 big categories: - By language (.it, .de, .au, .uk, etc..)

    What language do they speak in .au (Australia) and .uk (the UK) then?

    Originally, non-international websites were meant to use their own countries (correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a .us?). However, more and more companies, organisations and people just go for .com, .org, .net or whatever.

    Its not even consistent between countries. In Australia, they have .com.au, but the British equivalent is .co.uk.

    Now, with the introduction of .jobs and .travel, the whole thing is becoming more and more confusing.

    I'm still waiting for .spam, .l337~h4XX0r and .mockedupimitationusedforphishingscams