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ICANN Draws Ire Over Batching For Dot.word Domains

Posted by Unknown on from the punch-the-monkey dept.

angry tapir writes "ICANN has been subjected to more criticism over the process of creating new 'dot.word' generic top-level domains. Registry services companies have criticised ICANN for processing the 1900 or so applications for new gTLDs in batches, which means that it will take significantly longer for some new domains to go live than others. The real kicker is the process for choosing who goes in which batch: 'Digital archery' — essentially an applicant nominates a particular time then tries to click a button in a browser as close to that time as possible. I should have taken advantage of all those 'punch the monkey' ads in the good ol' days."

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  1. Can you be bothered? by neokushan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you be bothered with all that fuss, all that trouble? Having to click an arbitrary button at an arbitrary time. Can you really be bothered?

    ICANN.

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  2. Somebody batched the title by Gearoid_Murphy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Surely they mean botched?

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  3. The important question... by alexhs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did slashdot apply for the ".dot" domain ? h t t p colon slash slash slashdot dot dot ...

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