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The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All?
Mordok-DestroyerOfWo writes "According to the BBC, ICANN is considering opening up the wholesale creation of TLDs by private industry. While I'm sure this is done for the convenience of the companies and has nothing to do with the several thousand dollars they will be charging for each registration, I was curious what the tech community at large thought about this idea. It seems to me that this will simply open the doors for a never-ending stream of TLD squatters."
When was the last time a multi-million dollar corporation was embarrassed about anything?
Corporations are just like people, except, you know, completely different.
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They should visit film.disney.com, kids.disney.com, and fun.disney.com. The DNS works backwards, and people should learn that just as they learn how an email address works and how to work web forms.
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This system worked for nearly 100 years with phone numbers. People got used to dialing just digits--and they published directories for those who didn't know the digits. With only 10 digits, nearly every family and business in the US could have there very own, private 10-digit number.
There were a could of crazy schemes to add letters to the phone dial pad--but could you image how complex and confusing that would be! If you're older than 35, when you were growing up do you remember anyone looking for the letters on the dial.
And in my day, we had real dials on the phone--none this fancy DTMF stuff for us.
Uhmm, I use a .NET
.COM it was already taken by a COMPANY. Go figure.
I use it to point to my home NETWORK. While I would like to have
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that sucks.
http://www.regular-expressions.info/ is actually quite a useful site.
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I disagree with the harmless part. This could be used for phishing and spamming.
Imagine "customer.service08@paypal.comm". If the TLDs are truly opened up then paypal.comm will actually be real.
Of course you already have this problem with domain typos and deliberate obfuscation, but this will exacerbate the problem. So it is not completely harmless, and in some instances not completely opt-in either.
I can see your point about businesses not having to buy these new TLDs, but think about this from a business perspective. If you have even more than a couple hundred thousand dollars in sales per year, what is an extra $200-$300 dollars to grab the most popular TLD's to lock up your domain name?
Firstly, the interviewer started under the misapprehension that domain names were running out, which Dr. Twomey corrected, and said the problem was with IPv4 addresses. The following comments then followed, which concern the introduction of IPv6:
Dr Paul Twomey, chief executive of Icann, told BBC News that the proposals would result in the biggest change to the way the internet worked in decades. "The impact of this will be different in different parts of the world. But it will allow groups, communities and business to express their identities online. "Like the United States in the 19th Century, we are in the process of opening up new real estate, new land, and people will go out and claim parts of that land and use it for various reasons they have. "It's a massive increase in the geography of the real estate of the internet." This is included in TFA, where it is implied that he was referring to domain names.The comments he actually made about DNS and TLDs were much tamer, mainly relating to internationalization and the use of unicode URLs.
I listened to this while driving, so I may have misunderstood slightly, but there was definitely no sense of "OMG TLD free-for-all" in the interview as broadcast.
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Your logic that .com was so large to make .net pointless to create makes no sense considering they were created at the same time. (January 1985)
.com to take off, there are fewer than 100 currently registered .com domains that date back to the first two years of .com's existance. Both .com and .net were rare to see in the late 80s to early 90s anyhow- .edu was much more common on USENET, or IRC, or on internet games such as netrek. Hell, .mil seemed about as common as .com in the early days.
It took years for
The TLD's do have one use (some of them anyway) - they indicate the expected language of the page your about to see.
.com is not what danish people type automatically. - also, for example, the danish newspaper "BT" would not be able to get the url bt.com (british telecoms) - but use bt.dk with success, and without breaking any IP laws.
For many companies in denmark, for example, the NAME.dk domain is more important than the NAME.com...as
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