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Loophole found in Internet Domain Naming

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-business dept.

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."

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  1. Talk about confusing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Later, ICANN allowed 2nd level domains (bar.pro) to be sold for .pro as well. The restriction to this selling was that a user must have the 3rd level domain first.

    So wait, you have to own foo.bar.pro before you can own bar.pro? That doesn't make sense. Or have they got it backwards, and you have to own pro before you can own bar.pro? That doesn't make sense either. Maybe they mean "first" as in the order of the address and not chronologically. That doesn't make sense either because I can just have the 'www' subdomain.

    What, if anything, is that sentence supposed to mean? I've set up plenty of domains, so I'm not ignorant, but the language used is simply so confusing I can't make heads nor tails out of it.

    Isn't it the editor's job to make sure summaries are readable?