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Startup Applies For 307 GTLDs

Posted by Soulskill on from the evolution-of-squatters dept.

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."

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  1. A records by DigiShaman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    tickets.domain.com

    Next?

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    1. Re:A records by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      No. The best website for selling tickets should be tickets.tickets.tickets

    2. Re:A records by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Quick... someone get developers.developers.developers! All the monkeyboy videos you could ask for.

    3. Re:A records by Nidi62 · · Score: 5, Funny

      A perfect site for listing monster truck rallies would be sunday.sunday.sunday

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    4. Re:A records by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Insightful

      !netcom :-)

      Really these domains are useless. Someone in some registrar, somewhere, is going to make a killing, by selling something that decreases in value, with every additional TLD. The businees will quickly dry up, thereafter.

      I will be filtering them, confidently from lookups on my nets. Any of these "TLDs" will also have a regular .com or .org, anyway. They will be located through search, and noone will bother typing any of them - ever.

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    5. Re:A records by themaneatingcow · · Score: 5, Funny

      There's a huge legal coming over who owns girls.girls.girls.

      So the lawyers are all ejaculating over this? A reasonable assumption, I'd say...

    6. Re:A records by datavirtue · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, everything is done through search. Domain names are not as important as they used to be. It is about status and credibility anymore. Consumers are not going to navigate to the .tickets tld to find tickets for christ's sake, they are going to pop open google and fucking type "tickets."

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    7. Re:A records by brendank310 · · Score: 4, Funny

      And a real estate web site would naturally be location.location.location

  2. AOL Keywords by jmorris42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:AOL Keywords by DanTheManMS · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Sadly, we already have AOL Keywords reborn. It's "Go to Facebook.com/AOL_Keyword_Here for more details!"

  3. List? by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is there a list of the 307 gTLD's? Isn't this story less than complete without it?

  4. Can we short them yet? by Xugumad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > 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*

    1. Re:Can we short them yet? by hairyfish · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I regularly start with a TLD and work backwards when I'm looking for things, rather than searching Google...

      *facepalm*

      Yeah I never really understood the logic here. The best site for searching isn't search.com, the best site for porn isn't porn.com, the best site for buying books isn't books.com, and we all know the best social networking site isn't socialnetwork.com. In fact I'm struggling to think of even one case where the name of a TLD actually is the best site in it's category? I don't understand why anyone would pay a premium for a TLD when it is demonstrated to make no difference to the success of your site?

  5. No one memorizes domains anymore by Mitreya · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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)

    1. Re:No one memorizes domains anymore by 1u3hr · · Score: 5, Insightful

      my girlfriend still brings up a browser with google as the home page, then types in Yahoo Mail. And she's not the only one. I die a little every time I see that.

      It's not actually a dumb thing to do. Of course, if you have bookmarked a site, you use that. But if it's not your PC and you want a page with some degree of security -- mail, banking, Amazon, etc -- if you just type in the URL, you have the risk of making a typo and hitting a phishing site. If you type the URL into Google, the top link is usually what you intended to type, even if you made such a mistake. If the site is malware, you'll usually see indications of that in the links too.

  6. Specific TLDs = Phisher's paradise by Darkness404 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    What's wrong with just having .org, .net, .com, a handful of others and then country coded ones?

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  7. slash slash slash dot dot dot by countach · · Score: 5, Funny

    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/ )