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Dotless Top Level Domains?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the pricing-yourself-out-of-the-market dept.

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?"

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  1. Kinda wondering how this will be supported. by jZnat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Many web browsers will (by default) submit a domainless word to a search engine like Google unless the domain is covered by your hosts file. How will this work if we don't get direct access to the root DNS' collective hosts files? How will your browser know the difference between typing in "slashdot" to mean the URL "http://slashdot/" or that you want to search for slashdot, thus the URL being "http://www.google.com/search?q=slashdot"?

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  2. Already Tried? by Tachys · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has already been tried http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/ 2164841 by Realnames

  3. Re:Agreed!!! by DavidTC · · Score: 4, Informative

    It wouldn't work. localhost is looked up in the hosts files before DNS.

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