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Dot-Word TLDs Further Delayed
benfrog writes "The security bug that has been stalling the 'dot-word TLD land grab' might be fixed, but ICANN says it needs another week 'to sift through its mountains of TAS logs, in order to figure out which applicants' data was visible to which other applicants.' Needless to say, some are less than thrilled about the further delay."
Was anyone who didn't want to buy/sell them keen on the idea anyway?
...at ICANT's continuing strategy to turn this TLD thing into a blackmail scheme for companies, orgs, schools, etc. "Here, buy another domain because someone might squat on it!"
It's not my job to deal with that directly, but as a geek it rubs me the wrong way. It's deliberately injecting chaos into an already chaotic system. It's not like TLDs outside of .net, .org, .com, .edu, and cc codes matter. When is the last time you visited a company that used .biz that wasn't a fly-by-night spammer? Yeah, thought so.
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BMO
I cann has TLD?
People have waited 15 years for ICANN to finish placating the intectual property wonks and actually do this. A few more days? Pfttttttt...
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At $185k apiece, I wouldn't think you'd get that many applications to sort through.
There was a time when having a good domain name was required to be found on Internet. In those days, people paid insane amount of money to buy domains.
Then Google came, and changed everything. The domain name was not that important anymore, not as much as getting a good ranking, for which content was key. So people paid good money to generate content (aka blogs) and enlisted the help of (so-called) SEO specialist, some of which went to far (ask JcPenney).
Then Facebook came, and changed things even more. No more websites, no more blogs - "just visit our Facebook page and Like us, we'll give you a voucher for a free bottle of shampoo".
I may be silly but I say: fix DNS and bring back the domains. I don't like Liking and I hate blogs.
lucm, indeed.
So I decided not to pay attention to it for a few years after .info. Next thing I know there's .name, .asia, .cat, .jobs, .tel, .museum (can anyone even spell that?), .travel, and .xxx. And while all of this is going on, the only tld that anyone even knows exists is the .com. There hasn't been a land grab for any of them. But I can't help getting the feeling that our friends at Icann keep expecting us to get Pokemon fever with these things. Maybe if a new tld was something special again? Maybe if the public was a little better educated on what a tld is, and why we need them? Why do we still need tld's anyway? Ah well. That's my two cents.
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Remind me what TLDs have done for the world? Great idea, but bad because normal people do not know what they are. I work at a .org, and a coworker thinks wikipedia.com is wikipedia.org Why? Wikipedia.com works. Nobody uses .biz, .name, .museum, .mobi or .org or anything but .com and ocassionally .edu I dont think anyone knows what .net or .ly are. In fact google is my hostname looker upper just like most peoples.
In case anyone was wondering, the AC's link above is an actual article complaining about ICANN. I thought it might be one of the usual troll pictures, but nope.
(OT: I can cross my eyes which for some reason makes everything very fuzzy; it's useful sometimes when I don't want to see something distinctly like now or when I'm looking through a page with spoilers all over. I've always vaguely wondered if everyone can do that.)
Speaking of TLDs, one thing that irks me is a certain major local channel that, inconsistently but increasingly, has dropped the .com from mentions of its 7online website (especially during their local news) and even shows subpaths as e.g. 7online/protect (what you'd see if you ever run into their missing person commercial things). As you'd expect, that URL doesn't work-as-given.
I'm not sure how much of that is laziness, how much is preparation for a future move to a .7online TLD (!!!), and how much is ESPN3-esque net-neutrality hijinks (Disney owns both, and they tout their 7online apps and Facebook and stuff more than a little often).
Anyway I hope they (WABC and ICANN) stop fucking with the DNS as they currently do. It's confusing and unnecessary.
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Seems like nobody here likes the idea of .* domain names. Is there anyone out there who likes it?
Are there public stats showing how many applications ICANN received, and for which names? /me really curious about the results.
... and let them create all the domains they want there. Meanwhile we can go about setting up a new TLD managed by someone who can do so responsibly.
Seriously, what does "less than thrilled" mean? Is this proper English? Why not just say, "not thrilled"?
Yes, most people can, and the fuzziness, rather than the simple in-focus double image one might naively expect, is because of the convergence-focus link in your low-level ocular control firmware. It's possible to over-converge, while retaining correct focus, but it takes effort & practice.
In my domain, DOT is Department of Transport and TLD are Traffic Lights. Please be more explicit next time.
Of the newly forthcoming TLD's, or where to get them from a reputable source?? Thank you.
Some of you may not remember the Internet before ICANN (:-), which was founded about a year after The September That Never Ended, but back when there were only seven gTLDs, the IETF was looking at expanding them, and the Internet Ad-Hoc Committee (IAHC) was their organization that was working on it, and had a proposal for adding seven more fairly lame gTLDs (which was a good approach, because they were going to make mistakes in the process and learn things that nobody had expected, so it was better to do a practice round with gTLDs that nobody cares too much about, like .firm, before messing with important names like .inc, .ltd, .llc, .gmbh, and .sex.) The Trademark Gods got their hands in the pie early, because they cared a lot about Intellectual Property and didn't want those upstart Internet Protocol people messing with it, so they'd pressured the IAHC into requiring True Names and Addresses for name registrants, and they really didn't want community involvement in policy-making any more than the people who've been writing copyright treaties with domain-name confiscation and three-strikes internet disconnection want community involvement, so when ICANN suddenly appeared and took over control of DNS, you saw them doing the same things.
We don't need a huge number of gTLDs, because otherwise it would make the root just as cluttered as .com is now, but there's certainly room for a few hundred. For instance, the US trademark laws have about 35 categories of businesses, so Coke sodas don't conflict with coal product companies named Coke (or Koch), and Apple Computers doesn't conflict with fruit companies, and that could provide a mechanism for reducing the kinds of conflicts we get in .com, where only one business can get any particular name. It would also leave room for experimentation with naming structures, for instance doing geographically-based names (other than the .cctld approach), or phone-number-based domain names, or automatic disambiguation (for instance, if multiple companies want example.foo, they get example.1.foo, example.2.foo, etc.) The closest we've got in the current system is .museum, which nobody uses much.
That doesn't mean that ICANN's $185K/bid system is a great way to do gTLDs, but it'll at least break the ice a bit. Or it'll break ICANN, and that'd be fine too.
Bill Stewart
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What planet are you living on? /everybody/ knows what .net is - it's the TLD you get when someone already owned the .com and .org versions...