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ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs
penciling_in writes "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the relaxation of the rules for the introduction of new Top-Level Domains — a move that could drastically change the Internet. 'We are opening up a new world and I think this cannot be underestimated,' said Roberto Gaetano, an ICANN board member. The future outcome of this decision was discussed on Slashdot a few days ago. It also seems, based on this post on CircleID from last month, that ICANN was already in preparation mode of mass TLD introductions. The new decision will allow companies to register their brands as generic top-level domain names (TLDs). For instance, Microsoft could apply to have a TLD such as '.msn', Apple apply for '.mac', and Google for '.goog'... The decision was taken unanimously on Thursday, June 26, 2008 at the 32nd ICANN Meeting in Paris."
We are long overdue for a .sucks domain. It will be nice to finally have it.
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fuck.icann
I sincerely hope that this doesn't become too commonplace, and that .com, .net, and .org don't just get thrown out the window. Call me lazy, but I love being able to ctrl+enter, shift+enter, and ctrl+shift+enter to auto-complete .com/.net/.org respectively. Typing "www.search.google" is just more tedious than typing, "google [ctrl][enter]"
It wasn't that long ago that ICANN voted against allowing the much-requested .xxx domain. Now they want to open up to allow custom TLDs?
As if the internet didn't have enough arbitrary hodge-podge already.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
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Woohoo!
I, personally, intend to try for the ".nsfw" domain.
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Let's say Apple registers .apple or .ipod. Do they automatically get ALL of the possible domains within that TLD? If not, who controls the TLD? If .apple is a TLD, can I go to GoDaddy and register porcupine.apple? If they do control it, do they have to pay to register domains within their own TLD? Or does this deal come with free unlimited domains?
Warning: Apple/Nintendo fangirl. Likes her electronics cute & cuddly. May be rabid.
I don't look forward to having to type out stuff like www.somerandomcompany.randomlygenereatedtldthatwas pickedbysomemarkettingassholewhoexhibits callousdisregardforconvenienceandacompletelackofcommonsense
No longer the last domain available.
I hope they have good oversight...
Imagine the chaos of tlds with: .exe .dll .prg .php .c0m (or other foreign symbol for o .txt .pdf .conf .doc .txt .xls .ppt .jpg .gif .tif .mp3 .mpg .htm(l) .png ...then again slashdot could have a slashdot.slashdot domain.
"Enjoy what you're doing! If it becomes drudgery, you're doing it wrong!" - Jim Butterfield
I'd be happy with a TLD system based on language. Why do we need the com/net/org thing anyway. Lets just have something like
http://google.en/
http://google.it/
http://.name.language/
A flat DNS. Just the way it was always meant to be.
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They've really fucked the system with this one. Are there any alternatives to icann administered dns out there?
I kind of supported their decision NOT to issue a .xxx TLD. But mostly because I believe it SHOULD be issued at the country name level.
Example:
sitename.xxx.uk
or
sitename.xxx.seattle.wa.us
Now they've gone in the opposite direction, but they're still as stupid as they were back when they made that first decision.
Hmmm..let's open up the TLD's so that DNS servers will become overcrowded with useless DNS information that will quickly go out of date and throw the usability and simplicity of the current schema right out the window.
Additionally, of course, common folk will have more trouble getting a domain name for that personal website/application because the fees are going to increase exponetially.
Cash-in for ICANN - and end users lose.
70 million new TLDs means 70 million new registrations. The domain wars all over again. Fight for www.genericword -- That means a lot of money.
The lawyers should do nicely too.
This will only cause more confusion, especially to the average person.
But they get more $ out of the extra registrations, so we know why it *really* happened.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
...then ICANN has .chzbrgr?
I'm sorry, I'll show myself out now.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
I what impact this will have on cyber-squatting.
that should be restricted to the .con domain.
From a technical point of view I see this as a failure. It's putting more weight on on the root name servers, how long until there are 10,000 TLDs, 100,000 of them? a million? Then there's all the people running the TLDs who may or may not have the infrastructure, technical expertise or long-term stability to properly run one.
"free market" != stable, there will be thousands of different ways to register sub-domains, some where registrations will not be allowed, some which cost excessive amounts of money and eventually whole TLDs setup to Google-bomb.
Sure it means people will be able to type in "apple", but what gives one specific company the right over a global use of that trademark name? What about "apple" print design services, "apple" car mechanics all of whom have their own trademarks in that industry.
I'm just an idealist, and would much prefer ".uk.org.mycompany.www" style domains (remember, thats how it was supposed to work in the beginning but somebody fucked up), but all I can see happening from opening up TLDs is annoyance and instability.
I'm not even going to comment on ICANN doing this for the money, capitalist pigs.
I'm going to drop any TLD that isn't on the current (as of now) TLD list and I encourage other people operating DNS servers to do the same.
I really, really, hope I can get http://www.ocd.www/
I have .com's .net's and two different country's domains. I have no interest to waste more money on domains just because they changed the end suffix. It will all end up as a fiasco for popular suffix's like .tv (overpriced). No doubt .sex will still not be allowed. Will ICANN allow every registrar to register any .suffix or will that be restricted as well?
Take Nobody's Word For It.
http://coca.cola/
I don't care if it makes the Internet work like AOL keywords. I don't care if Google, Yahoo!, et al. have to spider inf() more TLDs. I don't care if idiot corporations think they have to buy every version of .m1kr0s0ft and .msf7 out there "just in case". If we can finally get .fuck and .suck, .lol and .is.gay the Internet will finally release its full scientific potential.
More porn.
-l
P.s., Karl Auerbach did experiments showing even BIND could handle umpteen million TLDs.
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On one hand, this makes DNS entirely useless. On the other hand, I (and I think many other people) basically just use Google as a replacement for DNS anyway, so maybe it doesn't matter.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
I can see it now. http: //hello.jpg/. Bad, bad, bad.
If you read TFA you'll see that the TLDs will cost upwards of $100,000 and are subject to ICANN approval. That cost and/or approval might be a one time thing, or it might turn out to be annual. Yes, there will be a few idiotic TLDs, but this is probably how it should've been from the beginning. I work for a university IT department and we regularly get calls from users trying to access university sites (most of which use the .edu TLD of course), except that they are trying to use .com instead. Some universities have registered .com domains to redirect to the real site to try and accommodate these people. Our department refuses to do this, and I'm glad. Many people still have the mindset that website == ends in .com and it reinforces that notion.
Arbitrary TLDs will slowly change the mindset from thinking that a URL is anything.usually-com to anything.anything. This is probably how DNS should have been from the beginning.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
"As if the internet didn't have enough arbitrary hodge-podge already."
It does - just look at Slashdot. It's hardly an 'organization' (.org), especially now that it's owned by a commercial entity (.com). Heck, it started out as somebody's personal little site.. happened to be an american (.us).
Tons more examples of current sites being on domains that they 'shouldn`t' be in, and also a lot of examples of where that is the case simply because sites change over time.
So if all of it is pretty much arbitrary anyway, then why not do away with it?
Heck, some people already have... *entirely*
For example: http://bi/
( disregard any re-direction by browser to www.bi.com ; open a shell, go ping 'bi'. If you're on windows, go ping 'bi.' or it will look for a local host)
I understand the many technical, psychological, financial, etc. reasons against this. But in terms of organization - we don't have any anyway.
I call .local. Think of how many small company domains that will screw with.
that is .all
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-26jun08-en.htm
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I keep trying, but I can't get to this site. :(
Instead of letting people own/register a TLD, they should have just let people register domains in *any* TLD.
Frankly, I fail to see how this is an improvement, as opposed to (say) yanking Network Solutions' monopoly...
"Not an actor, but he plays one on TV."
And so it comes full circle. The ancient flat hosts file that the ARPAnet used way back in it's early days, the one that was abandoned in favor of hierarchical DNS because it wasn't possible to manage a flat namespace when the net was a few thousand machines, returns. What, you think the companies that insist on registering every variation of their name in every domain in existence won't insist on having their own TLD too? And we'll be back to hostnames being of the form "ford". And "fordfocus". And "focus". And "myfocus". And "myford". All belonging to Ford Motors. And the inevitable fights when Focus Magazine (a fine-art photography magazine) also wants "focus" and has the trademark to justify getting it just as much as Ford.
Siiiiiigh...
I could see scammers with good old names like paypal.corm, paypal.con, paypal.GOM, paypal.C0M, paypal.CQM, paypal.COH... All these neet tricks to make people think they are going to a spot where if their eyes were anybit blurry would miss.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
A meeting of the minds between Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft resulting in an agreement to not index these idiotic domains could kill this quick before it gets out of hand.
*Will it happen - doubtful.
Can you or I do anything about it - probably not.
But I can dream.
Anonymous Cowards get no respect.
This is a really bad idea. The idea that a URL can end with a dot and a short suffix that's not one of a small, rarely changing, set means that you can't easily tell the difference between a URL and a file. What happens if someone registers '.jpg' or '.html'?
The possibilities for frauds and phishing and god-alone-only-knows-what-else has just increased exponentially.
www.yahoodotcom
com.yahoo.wwwslashslashcolonhttp
in-addr.arpa.168.192
java.lang.Throwable
slash.dotorg
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Although I like the idea of allowing arbitrary TLDs, I think allowing companies to own entire TLDs is, for the most part, a bad idea. The last thing I want to see is for new generic domains to become the foundation for a new model of unregulated registries (where the first to register a TLD gets full rights over its subdomains).
Also... the article brings up the issue of name censorship: "Susan Crawford, another board member, expressed concern about the provisions for rejecting domain names as a result of governments, on grounds of public order and morality, or Internet users, on the grounds that they were offended. She asked the board to limit such provisions as much as possible." Where can I find more information about these provisions? Do they apply to TLDs, or will all domain registrations be subject to censorship?
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
You know, with all kinds of domain names like:
alt.binaries.go.pound.sand.up.your.ass
comp.sys.obscure.programming.language.that.only.six.remaining.bearded.men.even.remember
can.forsale.illegal.bootleg.dvds.buffy.vampire.slayer
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
.com, .net, and .org domains will still hold the most legitimacy. How many large companies have you seen switch to predominantly .biz or .info domains?
hm. interesting. how does one register one of these?
:x
Can you say "CHAOS" ??
I cant wait to register .pr0n
as in www.midget.pr0n
The problem I have is with the dispute resolution system. According to Paul Twomey of ICANN (as quoted by the BBC), "[i]f there is a dispute, we will try and get the parties together to work it out. But if that fails there will be an auction and the domain will go to the highest bidder."
So, I pick a name, and McDeepPockets comes along and thinks, hey, that's a great idea - I'll just take that, thank-you. They "dispute" it, and ICANN's response is... well, if you really can't settle your differences, high bidder gets it. Wow... that's going to make for a pretty mercenary internet.
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I'm happy to see this. I have advocated this for years. TLDs just don't make any sense to me anymore. Now it's finally there. Never mind that it's probably just a way for them to make more money.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Sorry, pasted the wrong thing. The BBC article I referenced is here.
One innocent word in a language can be an offensive word in another. For exemple, the french word for "seal" is phoque, which is pronounced exactly like you think it is.
And even in the same language, various countries will give totally different meanings to a given word. Think of "lift" -vs- "elevator", "boot" -vs- "trunk" or "crisps" -vs- "chips"...
And it can be even worse; for example, in France, gosses means "children", whereas in Québec, it means "testicles".
http:///.
3.243F6A8885A308D313
Can we all agree now to block anything new that comes out. That way the spammers won't have an audience, and everybody else will keep what they have anyway. Plus it will piss off ICANN if nobody uses them.
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The only real reason they can possibly have made this decision is to get the really large pile of cash from selling these domains.
Maybe they're just sick of GoDaddy, Network Solutions, etc taking away all the fun of selling an infinite resource.
I am officially gone from
I meant this of course -
3.243F6A8885A308D313
Why create a district when you can have the entire Internet to push porn?
The point of a .XXX TLD was to accommodate simple filtering, i.e., a school or business could block all .XXX access and therefore block all porn.
For a porn site, that's no good. The reason that porn shops don't exist in every mall is that no one wants to be seen by their neighbors going there. So they are in less-visible areas and have remote parking. On the Internet, the opposite os true, they are in "plain sight" with all the other .com sites.
This move to more TLD's is just about the money. I wager that after the initial flurry, it will go the way of Microsoft Bob.
BTW, how are those "other" TLDs like .biz doing? Crappy, huh?
Cool, we can have .ent and .orc domains. I mistype those all the time anyways.
I gotta register the .msft tld and watch Windows servers worldwide flip out!
Bahahahaha! Thousands of MSCE instructors will be tarred and feathered for telling us to 'just name your domain something .msft. It won't cause any problems!'.
Hehe. I may get bacl into the LAN consulting business just to ca$h in. Easy money, fixing stuff the MCSEs do...
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
Get someone who controls a TLD to set up an A (or AAAA if you have IPv6 connectivity) record for it.
suddenbreakdownofcommonsense
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
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How is this any different or worse than the current situation in, say, the .com namespace?
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
The possibilities are endless!!!
omg,
ICANNhas.tldz !
that you would not have to type .com or .org any more.
You will type just google to take you to the current google.com, and pizzahut to go to pizza hut's website, or Audi to go to Audi.com website.
As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
By expannding the TLC to anything what is the point of having subdomains in the first place? This is basically just reselling the value of anyone who bought a .com address.
And make sure it's an IPv6 address!
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What about pseudo TLDs? For instance the .onion and .exit used by Tor. If any string of characters can be a valid address we won't be able to count on using special name for other purposes anymore. I can imagine how this could have significant security implications as well. This will also put a damper on the (already damp) attempts to create alternative DNS systems, since, again, there will be no names that can be counted on not to conflict anymore.
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Is that your web site on this business card, or a PGP signature? :)
Finally, i can register a domain dedicated purely to the anatomy of male and female goats :)
either 'goo' or 'goog'. thats too bad. or maybe 'gog'.
.shit myself.
while we're at it, i'd like to procure the extension
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Then have a wildcard responder that takes ANY mispelled ".com" name that's actually typed with ".con" and sends it to exploit installing sites. Holy crap - would make the storm worm look like a gentle breeze worm.
Poor means hoping the toothache goes away.
with blackjack and hookers!
But seriously, perhaps we could, and than just shovel the who ICANN shit heap under .shitheap or something.
$100 to the first person to setup a Dillon Edwards Investments site at ClownPenis.fart. (It is an old and prophetic SNL skit.. for those of you that may not know)
This is great. Right now you've got all the "protect our brand" people registering their domain names in .com, .net, .org, and often in .info, .tv, etc. just because they don't want someone else to have it.
Now, there will be so many TLD's that the "protect our brand" people couldn't possibly cover them all.
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In Dutch "kunt" means "cant".
I imagine this will create a problem with common email address parsers. Many email parsers at the moment look for an @ symbol and [incorrectly] at least one dot in the domain name. If this becomes widespread I would imagine that: steve@apple bill@microsoft john@smith type email addresses will become popular, as MX records start to become attached to top-level-domains much more frequently than they are now.
The second I can, I want to get a bunch of TLDs, and sell them to big companies, for a huge profit. How much would IBM pay for a .IBM, or Sony for a .PS3? xD
It seems like it could be fairly profitable to buy .ocm and .cmo, at least the way I type sometimes.
I would just direct *.cmo to a page that says, "I see you mistyped *.com, please click on the ad below to be redirected to your page."
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Does this mean that http://localhost/ is now a potentially valid domain name?
Those who would give up liberty to obtain working drivers, deserve neither liberty nor working drivers.
Hey, I was all about opening up the TLDs back in the '80s, I worked on getting one of the first open TLDs (.dot) running under The Internet Namespace Cooperative (TINC). But it doesn't matter any more.
Because "COM" is "the" top level. Who the hell cares about "name" or "per" or the rest of the "we are not COM, but..." domains? It's too late, it's a done deal, "COM" is the top level, everything else is parochial.
So don't fight over who's going to be ".sex", people will still pay more for "sex.com", and when you say your email address is "you@yourname" you better make sure that "you@yourname.com" works as well.
What I don't understand, is why did they decide to do this now? When they created the internet they must have decided on com/net/org for a reason, rather than letting people just do what they want? What's the reasoning? Money?
So now my new Chrysler can not only have wireless internet access, but maybe I can hack a web server into it and put it up at www.lazyDog.shittychrysler
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So what does that mean for Immanuel Kant?
Fnord.
I want google, apple, microsoft, dell, toshiba, ibm, sun, cocacola, kraft, xxx, java, porsche, ferrari, and slashdot, for starters. More to come shortly.
stupid and useless bullshit. My expectation is no one will ever use this shit. when I see google.com I KNOW it's a url. when I see search.google it looks like a typo
That's it, I'm going back to the numbers. That way when the name services fail at least I be the first to post.
I'm registering .localdomain and .localhost just for good measure. All your default linux installs are belong to me.
Hello, I represent the Gay Nigger Association of America, and hereby order you to cease and desist the use of our acronym (GNAA).
Actually it means 'can' as in 'yes we can'.
that http://slash. is a perfectly resolvable name, going right to the slash tld
Wait until someone registers the .con TLD. http://www.mybank.con/
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
This will make it nearly impossible to resolve queries by any other means than by direct root server queries. Sure, you probably query some suspect .com server everyday, but it's different than hitting the same root servers everytime for every query.
Dynamic tlds means you need to go to the source of the entire tree every time you resolve. One stop shopping for government data mining.
afdsafs
Instead of .xxx, they should have gone for .cum
So big businesses and media brands can have their own TLD brand, and small and midsize players will be relegated to that "poor untrustworthy" .com.
So much for the internet being a level playing field. ICANN is a non-profit, but there would be no prohibition against their directors who vote from being lobbied and bought and paid for.
A parting gift from the Bush Administration's worse than worthless Commerce Department to big business.
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icann.WTF ???
Ok the first thing to happen will be the registration of .lol and then .omg ... and then like .omgwut
things may get as bad as..
insertlameassworldofwarcraftclan.wow
jackthompson.shutup
This is terrible...
What was their problem before?
How about the .256 domain for geek sites?
As they are used to blindly clicking them anyway.. I suggest .exe
waiting for ad.doubleclick.net
Well, if it's just a question of cost, I suppose we'll soon see
http://warren.buffett/
http://steven.branson/
http://slim.helu/
http://bill.gates/
http://paul.allen/
http://developersdevelopersdevelopers.ballmer/
http://lakshmi.mittal/
http://larry.ellison/
http://diet.oprah/
http://mousehat.disney/
http://saint.murdoch/
-- thinkyhead software and media
Yes, I know .localdomain won't be available, but what about users and systems within local networks that tend to function on alternate (internal-only) and implied (non-canonicalized) domains?
... Under an infinite number of TLDs, this isn't reliable.
.office or .foo TLD wouldn't stop this from working, I'd prefer a lookup failure to a key mis-match when trying such a command from a machine lacking the above config.
Let's say I have a partitioned office network at the company Foo Powers. My workstation is khopesh.office.foopowers.com (which is NAT'ed). From another system within the office, I'd probably just run ssh khopesh to get there (which implies khopesh.office.foopowers.com). To log into the web server (which lives in the DMZ), I'd run ssh www.dmz and to get back to my system, ssh khopesh.office would do the trick.
There are cool SSH tricks you can do to traverse NATs; I have it rigged so that from home, I can run ssh khopesh.office and get in. This triggers an entry in my ~/.ssh/config that looks like this (the first entry fits the above example. the second entry allows me to define an arbitrary extension to trigger a proxy rule and then remove the extension inside the proxy):
Host *.office
ProxyCommand ssh proxy.office.foopowers.com nc -w 1 %h %p
Host *.foo
ProxyCommand ssh proxy.office.foopowers.com nc -w 1 $(echo %h|sed s/\.foo$//) %p
While a real
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
Why not ditch this idea and instead beginning resolving single element addresses as the .com address in the client.
E.g. http://google/ resolves to http://google.com/
No fuss, no bother, little cost and no trademark battles.
On the downside, no money for ICANN.
I want .ocm .om and .cm!
Think about mobile devices. On the correct LAN, the local nameservers always answer these queries because they're configured to be authoritative. However, when away from that LAN, a few well-placed wildcard records would create a nice honeypot.
hink of "lift" -vs- "elevator", "boot" -vs- "trunk" or "crisps" -vs- "chips"...
OK, I give - in what country do you trunk your computer?
Over in the US we only trunk VLAN's.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Both!
Plus you can also use it to decrypt HD movies.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
It's sad, no longer will we be impressed by creative TLD usage like del.icio.us, when every Average Joe can register www.average.joe
I'm no techie, but I was wondering if opening up TLS's to anything might cause conflicts with future coding environments, such as with file extensions. "Slashdot.doc", for example. It seems there is the potential of putting unfair burdens and restrictions on end-users...
Like I said I'm not techie, just curious.
I think this is fantastic news. This means the value of .com .tv .eu and all other current TLD domain sharks today all have gone bankrupt. This is the news they hoped would not happen.
I think that the new rules should be following:
- The Democracy involved at ICANN should rule on sharked, spammed or unused domains. As well as trademarks automatically are monitored using a database so suspicious attempts at registering trademarks will be identified.
- ICANN should control the whole system themselves using a central Google Apps like infrastructure that can scale to cover all TLD and all domains for the whole world.
- Domains should be free, no price, nada. Other then perhaps a very small fee to cover the costs of maintaining the whole DNS, database and ICANN controlling system. Thus price for a domain should be probably less than 1 dollar per domain per year. ICANN should remove all the domain registrar business, we don't need it. The price of a domain should be public knowledge and nobody should pay more than that price.
- To register a domain you need to give your real identity to ICANN, you have to register your business and be able to submit tax papers and government controlled verification in case of a conflict.
This will be just like newsgroups, the value of .com and all current TLDs will decrease, and now the value instead is going to be the content and the relevancy. Today is a great day for democracy online, for relevancy of searches, for the quality of the content online, for the semantic web and for the freedom of speech.
I think the more interesting development is the approval of non-romanized addressing.
ããf©ããf¥ãfãffãf.ããf, anyone?
It seems as though these changes are harmful to the end-user, although if you're Japanese or Russian you might think differently.
i'm going to register localhost.
The Capitol needs:
congress.dumbass
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
For those who are in the agriculture industry, how about making use of the .corn TLD? Just imagine the scamming potential.
I would like to register .dot and then give /. a domain in it. And then, of course, dot.dot, just so I can hear people say it out loud.
Bearded Dragon
Is it possible to not use ICANN or refuse to comply with their rules?
I'm not on the up and up when it comes to networking and IT and such so please try to keep that in mind!
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Incidentally, in Firefox, use http://bi./ to avoid redirection
on a non-tech radio news this morning I heard something about non-latin characters being allowed, any word on this?
what happens to punycode??
For every language a domain, very costly job.
Knowing there will be atleast 10 languages that will be used mostly.
Just made my costs grow tenfold!
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
When posting comments on blogs etc., I frequently use nonsense eMail addresses like spam@not.wanted or send.me@no.mail. Don't blame me for the spam they'll get. How shold I have known that they'd become real addresses some day?
Tons more examples of current sites being on domains that they 'shouldn`t' be in
No amount of policing the tld system will fix that, it's a fundamental issue: TLDs track a single feature, while sites can be defined by any number of characteristics, and there's no easy way to find a dominant one. Think Gmail's tags versus plain folders. A site can be at the same time non profit (.org), US based(.us), and pornographic (.xxx).
In short, there's no point in expecting that the TLD give correct info about the site's content or about the entity that runs it. At best, a TLD should be easy to remember, no more.
In most other countries, the local ccTLD is the default where people look for company websites.
Granted, but that doesn't make a skerrick of difference to my point: you're still not going to look for www.at.google instead of google.co.at, yesno?
I suspect that speculators who have paid good money for a .com domain name, knowing that the 'neighbors' (.net, .org) are limited will lose out with this deal.
It's like building a mansion in a prime location, but then having a trailer park pop up next door just before you're about to sell.
Sorry, I don't know how the TLD system works. Can you be more specific?
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
'We are opening up a new world and I think this cannot be underestimated,' said Roberto Gaetano, an ICANN board member.
I assume he means 'overestimated'.
...for the .con TLD, which will confuse legions of Internet users into clicking on evil links, and has the added bonus of being poetically appropriate for that use :)
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
phishers and typo-abusers rejoice!
I call .local, .localdomain, and .int. Every local and private intranet and local machine be damned!
No.
Well, there's always RFC 2606. But naming your Active Directory domain "mycompany.invalid" seems a bit harsh.
There are loads of details to be worked out, and even when that happens there won't be a rush for new TLDs. Cost, need to navigatge the arcane ICANN process, responsibility for resolution and lack of pressing need IMO will prevent any significant new TLDs from emerging. Here's a longer take: http://cparente.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/what-the-heck-is-icann-doing-with-domain-names/ Please drop comment if you think I've got it wrong.