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New ICANN TLDs May Cause Internet Land Rush
wiryd writes "A new ICANN proposal would allow applications for almost any TLD. From the article: 'Tourists might find information about the Liberty Bell, for example, at a site ending in .philly. A rapper might apply for a Web address ending in .hiphop. "Whatever is open to the imagination can be applied for," says Paul Levins, ICANN's vice president of corporate affairs. "It could translate into one of the largest marketing and branding opportunities in history."'"
Remember when Pandora opened that cute little box?
Why would you want a website where your only content is a tumbleweed and a Chinese guy riding a bike with no tires around a broken crate?
What's this all about? I surf the internet using IP addresses.
My favorite site is 216.34.181.48
Karma: Excellent. 15 moderator points expire sometime.
Forget about those old blah street names and numbers! Now you can request a NEW EXCITING address that would really mean something to your friends and family!
Instead of:
1122 A St.
North Somewhere, NY 99999
You can now purchase:
Hey, I'm here and you can find me at the end of the road on the left side right past the dog that always barks at you and only has three legs unless his owner has him chained up in the back so in that case you'd have to look for the broken tricycle that I left by the front door. Oh and I'm somewhere on the top of the map in a really heavy population state!
Act Now!
-- I really need to bleed off some of this
An ICANN get rich quick scam?
ICANN haz money?
Swedish plasma phys. PhD student; MSc EE; knows maths, programming, electronics; finance interest; seeks opportunities
might just be easier to remember the ip address.
Ah, my friend, that's where IPv6 comes in.
Joking aside, we're probably not adopting IPv6 fast enough. This TLD thing, however, is crazy.
.xxx
That'll probably be one of the first few to go, right after .con, .c0m, .0rg, .etc .
There is one exception to this: .cheezburger has been reserved for ICANN's exclusive use.
slashdot.slashdot.slashdot
or
slashdot.dotorg
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
mmm, corn.
But the spammers are phishers, not pharmers!
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
what about .cum? That'll be a quickie I'm sure... In more than one way.
Application Fee: $185K .ass domain....
Annual renewal: $25K
Owning the rights to the entire
PRICELESS
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
Well no wonder nobody finds your site: you made a post about your fancy new domain name without even so much as shameless plug!
On a related note, try FlacSquisher today!
Convert FLACs to a portable format with FlacSquisher
Sadly, that makes me think of usenet more than the web...
Did they ever make an alt.microsoft.developers.developers.developers ?
There is one exception to this: .cheezburger has been reserved for ICANN's exclusive use.
.cheezburger?!? I think you're making this up! And you're about 1 week too late.
What?!? ICANN has
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
"Google didn't"?
Their domain name is obviously relevant to googling, duh.
Well, I could see spammers with a real economic use for dot.corn (look carefully - dot - c - o - r - n, not c - o - m)
~tomhudson (not logged in)
.con would be more likely to be mistyped. And much more accurate a description.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
Apparently, he needs some ".edu".
I hope I didn't brain my damage.
I like your idea about backwards domains though. :) Also, how cool (nerdy?) would it be to own the www.www.www domain?
Veritas patesco per quaestio questio. Truth is revealed through questions.
Owning .ass is only profitable if you also own .tits. After all, we all know that what sells is .tits and .ass.
Good, inexpensive web hosting
Owning the rights to the entire .ass domain....
PRICELESS
Only if you can figure out a way to put Goatse on every site.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Well, when the whole DNS scheme goes down the drain after ICANN starts to do money-making scheme like these, we can still go back to /etc/hosts.
Should be a lot easier today with big hard drives, file systems that support big files and things like rsync.
Technology is finally ready for ~531.3 GB /etc/hosts files.
We can call them "/etc/hosts v2.0"
Oh yes. And don't forget .orgy
The first www. is unnecessary :)
Considering ICANN's outrageous greed and lack of government oversight, perhaps they should rename that as a 419 error page instead...
> Owning .ass is only profitable if you also own .tits. After all, we all know that what sells is .tits and .ass.
Yeah, but just getting all the yellow properties isn't enough. You need to build some hotels on them to really rake in the money. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact...
OOGA OOGA