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The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bad-ideas dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Worst idea ever by Molochi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    exacty.

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  2. Re:Worst idea ever by cyberwiz01 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm just waiting for the scammers to register .corn which, in the usual compact, sans-serif font of most web browsers, looks a lot like .com

  3. Why bother with DNS at all? by dotwaffle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't use DNS knowingly. Seriously, I don't - a server I administer is on an IP, it has a domain name, but it's actually quicker to type in the (decimal, not dotted decimal) IP than the domain name.

    And for other DNS queries? Google - type it in the search bar, hit search. Or it's in a bookmark/del.icio.us link.

    And before some wise-ass cracks, yes, my MSN client will probably contact a server using DNS to get it's IP, but that's cheating ;)

    Apparently the same thing has happened in Japan...