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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. 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).

  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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  4. 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