Loophole found in Internet Domain Naming

kyndig writes "Just what is the 'spirit of internet naming?' ICANN can tell you, as they are the naming experts. In a recent CNN article, ICANN states EnCirca Domain Register is violating the spirit of internet naming by reselling .pro names. The report states that in early 2000, ICANN allowed 3rd level domains (foo.bar.pro) to be sold. Later, ICANN allowed 2nd level domains (foo.pro) to be sold for .pro as well. The restriction to this selling was that a user must have the 3rd level domain first. There are no reseller checks or usage enforcement other than the request to own a 3rd level domain from ICANN. EnCirca president plans to continue reselling 2nd level .pro domains, unless ICANN places a restriction on doing so."

Comments

Why?

[Penguinoflight]

Well, i've asked the same question. The simple answer is that bar doesn't make any sense alone. foo.bar is the only way to complete a thought.

Why does this stuff get posted? There is no opinion on this, nobody mentioned that ICANN generally sucks, and who wants a .pro domain anyway?

Re:Why?

[ThePilgrim]

and who wants a .pro domain anyway?
Me Me! I'm a professional! I want a pro domain! I want to show how professional I am. Please give me a pro domain. Give me one! Now! Me. Pleeeesssssss!!!!!!!!

DNS?

[Poromenos1]

Bah, who needs DNS anyway? Real hackers memorize IP addresses! All you need to know is 216.239.57.99, really.

Re:DNS?

[SorcererX]

The scary thing is... I didn't even need to look up that ip to know it was google

Re:DNS?

[Simon Garlick]

IP addresses are for n00bs. REAL hackers memorize MAC addresses.

Re:DNS?

[caluml]

bash-2.05b$ ping 00:32:fc:14:0a:3c
ping: unknown host 00:32:fc:14:0a:3c
bash-2.05b$

It doesn't work :(

Re:DNS?

[DaveJay]

REAL hackers can whistle into a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem and make ASCII porn come up on the screen. Word.

I wonder how useful all these domains are.

[Amiga Lover]

I wonder how useful all these extra tlds are. I've worked on a helpdesk for a .org and a .edu, and one of the REALLY common problems we get is a call from users complaining they can't get on. Invariably, they're typing "www.foo.edu.com" or "www.foo.org.com".

I bet there's a lot of "why can't I get to lawyer.pro.com??" going on.

Re:.pro?

[Mercano]

No, your not alone, but you've given me an idea. /me goes to buy a spam.pro subdomain.

Re:ICANN is a disaster.

[dubdays]

I, for one, feel that the .XXX TLD is a very high priority!

.pron

[Reignking]

Can .pron be far?

Re:What's wrong with this sentence?

[nenolod]

The .XXX TLD is probably the most useful one out of those listed.

Re:What's wrong with this sentence?

[Anonymous Coward]

The .XXX TLD is probably the most useful one out of those listed.

Sheesh. Hollywood puts out a crappy action flick and now people are clamouring to give it its own domain.

Re:What's wrong with this sentence?

[spongeboy]

Well, this movie has had a TLD for years

No kidding...

[Phil John]

...I was reviewing the server logs of one of our clients and people were searching in google/yahoo/msn/ask jeeves for the entire domain name, i.e. siteurl.com.

Even when people remember domain names some of them obviously don't know what to do with them (a stupidly large number of people I've met don't know what to do with the address bar and go to pages they regularly visit by typing the name in google, which is set as their homepage (somehow)).

Re:linux pro

[coppice]

Yes, but oldest.pro is still available :-)

.scam

[wingsofchai]

I'm waiting for .scam to come out so I know who NOT to trust...I mean, we have .biz for businesses we "trust" and .pro now for certified "professionals"...

Re:who cares?

[spot35]

maybe if it was .pron...