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ICANN Might Pre-Register gTLDs To Placate Critics
judgecorp writes "ICANN is to be congratulated for succeeding in expanding the Internet beyond the Latin alphabet. However, the organization is facing a harder task in extending the Internet's global top-level domains (gTLDs) — its proposal to open up the gTLD space has been plagued by controversy and delays. INCANN faces struggles with trademark owners and competing businesses — but even so it is being criticized for acting slowly (as seen in transcripts from the recent meeting in Seoul). It now seems likely the body will have a pre-registration scheme to gauge demand and placate critics by getting something moving on new gTLDs."
No it isn't.
If you think phishing and typosquatting are bad now, think of how bad it will be when people see a link that looks like logon.[pictogram of a cat sitting on a stool].bank and it redirects to logon.[pictogram of a cat sitting on a stool with its tail curled a little bit at the end].bank that's owned by Lavaturian gangsters.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
.com stands for commercial and Slashdot is in fact a commercial site.
Traded on the stock exchange under LNUX ticker symbol. How is it not a company?
Living in Chile
Every time something new is created, the squatters make millions, and everyone else has headaches. Does that not sum up ICANN's contributions in the last decade?
"Microsoft killed my company, I hold a personal grudge. I don't use Microsoft products and neither should you."-JWZ
All new TLDs are immediately filled by the same old names.
If they created a new TLD of .whateveryoulike then you can be sure that all the corporate big names would fill in their names - Microsoft, Sears, Exxon or whoever. After them would come all the domain grabbers who would sit on anything of interest and offer it for "only $499".
It needs to be ensured that this does not just become another land-grab by multiple registrars, like last times...
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
I'm just surprised that colon.slashdot.org isn't being used. "idle" could have used that name,
Well, call me a goofball, Slashdot is sane enough to drop extended byte chars. Saner than ICANN.