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Startup Applies For 307 GTLDs
itwbennett writes "Startup Donuts has set its sights on being a domain-name registry. With $100 million in venture capital in its pocket, Donuts has applied for 307 of the most generic of generic top-level domains. The new domains will be targeted toward specific services, said Jon Nevett, a cofounder and vice president of corporate affairs at Donuts. For example, the .tickets domain would be where Web users could expect to go to buy event tickets. 'There will be more names geared toward what consumers are looking for,' Nevett said."
tickets.domain.com
Next?
Life is not for the lazy.
Everything old comes back it seems. Why does this look exactly like AOL Keywords reborn?
We know nobody will be bothering registering subdomains on these turds. It will just be 'tickets' resold to the highest bidder.
Democrat delenda est
Is there a list of the 307 gTLD's? Isn't this story less than complete without it?
> For example, the .tickets domain would be where Web users could expect to go to buy event tickets.
I regularly start with a TLD and work backwards when I'm looking for things, rather than searching Google...
*facepalm*
People use google or another search engine.
I've seen less-computer-literate people type in the entire URL into google (e.g. open google, and type in cnn.com/search to go to CNN's website)
What an evil, scummy corporation. BS on "startup." This a bunch of back room money men.
That is too much non-specific not enough cash being paid to me.
Now you'll be going to domain.tickets for your ticketing needs.
In your example the user would need to know which domain to go to while in the new paradigm the user will only need to know what domain to go to. Much more efficient. Particularly since I did not have the funding/foresight to buy tickets.com when it was available.
On a less ridiculous note, I can see the ".web" gTLD but the others are just STUPID. .vodka ? .restaurant ? .doctor ?
I really hope they revise this back to its original intent of corporate brands rather than generics.
Then again, one could argue that domains have become brands rather than the other way around, e.g. "flowers.com," which has no meaning without the TLD, so I suppose you could indeed have DotFlowers for the *.flowers TLD.
Wow, this is messy.
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
The more TLDs we create, the more opportunities there are for Phishers. For example, let's say there is a hypothetical TLD for .bank . And so someone registers Bankofamerica.bank as a phishing site. Well, lets say there is another one that is .finance, etc. So now as a precaution if you are Bank of America you have to register bankofamerica.com, .org, .net, .us, .bank, .finance, etc. all to redirect to your main site to stop phishers. Now then you've got to worry about typos... etc.
.org, .net, .com, a handful of others and then country coded ones?
What's wrong with just having
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Am I the only one who thinks that this GTLD craze is going a little bit too far? (Along with the repetitive coverage on Slashdot telling us every day how many applications there were)
Soon, people everywhere are going to have a tough time trying to remember if their favourite cat website's URL was whether slashdot.cat, slashdot.cats, slashdot.kitty, slashdot.kitten, etc. and whether they should go to slashdot.pets, slashdot.pound, slashdot.rescue, or slashdot.shelter to find a new animal to bring into their home.
I'm (mostly) kidding but I'm getting the same headache I usually get when somebody tries to explain to me how I should "refactor a system to be completely object-oriented because it's better".
Probably going to be just another craze that'll blow over after a couple years and everybody will go back to using the "old" TLDs like .com, .org, .net, because they "look more legitimate" (or because they're too cheap/lazy).
I think it is supposed to be for trademarked brands... and for whomever can pony up the $100k+ for a generic TLD, after ICANN has extorted those fees from the trademarked brand owners.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
It's like everyone competing over a worthless chunk of land.
We go to gain a little patch of ground ...
That hath in it no profit but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it
This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,
That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
Why the man dies.
- Hamlet, IV, iv
What about the long time dream of this web site to have a .DOT domain? So that we can have:
http: slash slash slash dot dot dot
( http://slashdot.dot/ )
What I am afraid is, after ICANN granted the ".tickets" GTLD, someone will find a way to insist that if you want to sell tickets, any kind of tickets, online, you have to sell 'em through one of those ".tickets" domains
My sincere hope is that nobody would do that. But then, when big money is involved, who knows ?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Can someone explain to me how GTLDs are actually supposed to work? We now have word of some 307 generic names being purchased. So what do I do to visit a TLD? Do I go to http://tickets/ ? So what happens if someone now decides to buy a GTLD that has the same name as a computer on my network?
(Yes I know this is slashdot and I should have fully qualified domain names for all my PCs but I don't)
The average home network still uses NetBIOS names for home networking. So today we have .tickets what happens when tomorrow someone registers .firewall? They will be unreachable by typing their GTLD into the browser? As in will http://firewall/ point to the computer called firewall, and then http://www.firewall/ point to the website with too much money to spare?
From the article,
"We'd be increasing the real estate on the Internet," Nevett said. "We think they're good, generic terms that will give consumers more choice and benefits."
Um, snapping up domain names to sell at a premium to someone else later is not "increasing" anything, it's a land grab in hopes that the "land" grabbed will sell for more than it cost.
When did this sort of behavior become a legitimate business plan instead of just being a sleazy attempt to squeeze money out of people that DO have business plans?
It's not like they are sticking to the rules about .org and .net, so I don't think they would mandate you need a .tickets to sell tickets.
Mandating that you would have to purchase one would only make sense if you needed help to sell out the space. With asshat squatters and speculators I sincerely doubt they will have problems selling it.
The real value of .con would not be that it looks so similar to .com, but that it's so easy to mistype .com that way.
Besides, with a website under .con, they can always say that they warned people upfront. ~
You're aware that *everyone* can register a .com domain?