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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. Archery by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Brings a whole new meaning to domain sniping - TLD sniping!

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  2. The truth about ICANN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The rotten and corrupt Domain Name System.

  3. 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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    1. Re:Can you be bothered? by azalin · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This officially answers the question if icann are out of their minds. How does anyone even remotely sober come up with such an utterly stupid idea? IF this would be for some gaming site handing out free beta keys it would OK, even fun. But if you are talking about business in the 6 figure range something a little more sophisticated should be used. Unless of course you want to look like a bunch of script kiddies far out of their league.

  4. This will work... by Sqr(twg) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...but only because anyone who's dumb enough to pay US$185,000 for a gTLD won't realize he can hire a programmer for five minutes and get a greasemonkey script that clicks the "submit" button at exactly the right time (minus network lag).

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

    Surely they mean botched?

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  6. 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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  7. California Lottery Laws by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I used to work for a company that prepared applications for New gTLDs, and left right after the submission deadline. I prepared several myself. The reason why they are going with this "digital archery" technique is to get around California lottery laws. ICANN did not want the New gTLDs to go through the same mess that ".biz" did:

    Official ICANN Link