Dotless Top Level Domains?

nodnarb1978 writes "As reported on Yahoo, a Dutch company called UnifiedRoot wants to offer top level domains without extensions. For instance, just typing slashdot would bring up this site, instead of slashdot.org. UnifiedRoot is careful to differentiate itself from New.net, but it seems their similar business tactics leave plenty of room for comparison. Another bone of contention is the price: UnifiedRoot wants $1000USD up front for a registration, with an additional $240 yearly renewal. With domain abandonments higher than ever, is this a solution looking for a problem? And would anybody really want to place control of entire TLDs in the hands of one private company?"

Comments

Re:Kinda wondering how this will be supported.

[LiquidMind]

I will feel sorry for the idiot that buys 'localhost'

Who wants to be the first?

[Xaroth]

Who wants to be the first to register "com", and have the entire internet be reduced to a subnet of your domain?

Bring on the dumpping of TLDs!!!!

[jackb_guppy]

TLDs are an appendix that needs to cut out!!

I believe each company should own their own TLDs... .IBM, .Mircosoft, ...

I believe the UN should make money from this!!! Yes the UN!!

This way there is not a problem with Trademarks in TLD. The UN will hand out International Trademarks.

Now a country will still rights to their TLDs, so US (or who they wish) can sell to their public. By defination .IBM.US is already mapped to .IBM. So no trademark issues again.

IF there are sub sub then it keeps going down.

Once there is moon base or mars base, then all TLD come under the planetary TLD of EA (Earth), MR (Mars), MN (Moon).

Once there is bases in other solar systems... you get the picture.

Re:Bring on the dumpping of TLDs!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Once there is moon base or mars base, then all TLD come under the planetary TLD of EA (Earth), MR (Mars), MN (Moon). Once there is bases in other solar systems... you get the picture.

Oh great, so IPV6 is going to be obsolete before it even gets implemented.

localhost?

[comwiz56]

What happens when someone registers http://localhost/ ?

Re:localhost?

[jZnat]

Wow, that site has an assload of free porn! And what great taste!

Re:localhost?

[SamSim]

One step ahead of you, buddy! I already have http://localhost/ registered!

Don't Click!

[Anonymous Coward]

That bastard posted a goatse link. Whatever you do, don't click on it.

Re:No thanks

[Anonymous Coward]

No Thanks? Why would anyone turn down these "Topless Dot-Level Do-maids"?

Re:Agreed!!!

[krasmussen]

It all blows up the day some hosting company decides to call themselves "localhost".

Re:No thanks

[hackstraw]

Granted the conventions are routinely flouted, and that those able to enforce them show little inclination to do so. Is that really an argument for making the system easier to abuse?

Without TLDs, there is nothing to abuse.

That's like trying to reduce crime in a high crime area by removing all the locks

Its more like trying to make an argument by analogy by comparing apples and black holes by removing the blackness. 99% of the time arguments by analogy leads to dumbass comments like mine to say how poor the analogy is. They are about as effective as TLDs.

It'd suck...

[Auraiken]

...surfing to something in another solar system. What if the server didn't exist by the time the packet got there? Wow, and imagine having to refresh the page. o_o;

Re:It'd suck...

[BorgCopyeditor]

Refreshing the whole page would take a long time. That's why you use AJAX with SSH wormhole tunneling for distances in the parsec range.

Re:Really?

[FST777]

Could you please stop posting horrible ideas on a website that Microsoft-executives could read?!?

can I buy localhost? please? please?

[speculatrix]

I want to buy .localhost. and CNAME it to goatsex or other famous nasty site.

that would finally encourge all the idiot windows lusers which don't know how to set up DNS properly!