ICANN Raffle Sets gTLD Processing Order

judgecorp writes "ICANN has held a raffle to determine in what order it will examine new domain name applications. This doesn't guarantee applicants will win the generic top-level domain (gTLD) they have set their hearts on, as the applications still have to be considered. There may be competition, or objections such as the South American governments' objection to Amazon's .amazon bid. None of the first batch is an English language domain, and the first one likely to make it through all the hurdles is an application by the Vatican, for a domain spelling 'catholic' in Chinese."

Comments

I see no prob.

[marcello_dl]

If the Vatican has probs with Catholic Cinese, they still can reserve .cathoric
*ducks*

Re:I see no prob.

[crossmr]

at least I have the stones to stand by what I write.

Re:I see no prob.

[crossmr]

Because the stereotype is about Japanese and to a lesser extent Koreans, not Chinese speakers.

Mandarin Chinese has both sounds, and there's typically no difficulty differentiating them. It's a Japanese stereotype (based on the fact that in Japanese these two sounds are allophones) that has grown to be applied to speakers of other East Asian languages. It might be compounded by the existence of facetious Chinese transliterations of English words, such as yimier for email instead of the literal diànz yóujiàn, "electronic message".

Some dialects of Chinese have little to no erhua, the tendency to suffix words with an R sound, so they may have difficulty pronouncing an R sound syllable-finally, because their own speech never calls for it (compare Standard Mandarin nàr, "there", versus more Southern nàli). In addition, L is frequently used in transliterations in place of R syllable-initially, as in luqièstè for Rochester.

So it's not so much that these sounds are confused, but that they're just used in different contexts, and a Chinese speaker might conceivably have some difficulty with that. But again, this probably affects Chinese speakers less than Japanese speakers, who might find it difficult to differentiate between the sounds in the first place.

So no, he's not showing awareness of stereotypes, he's showing ignorance, as last I checked, it isn't the Japanese building the iPhones.

Re:I see no prob.

[crossmr]

It's much much closer than "anonymous coward" is.
Though it is a rather apt description.

Re:I see no prob.

[ocdscouter]

It's much much closer than "anonymous coward" is. Though it is a rather apt description.

That reminds me, it's been months since we've seen any comments from Michael Cristopheit.

Re:I see no prob.

[marcello_dl]

The joke is racist and ignorant, but a system where jokes are considered for censorship is fascist and I'm not going to submit to this politically correct stuff. Today racism, tomorrow political opinions, the day after tomorrow The Truth.

You didn't like the joke, mod it down all the way, or come up with your own deplorable jokes, that's Freedom and I respect that.

stupid

[Anonymous Coward]

this whole gltd idea and process is the stupidest bag of dirt that I've ever seen. who thought it's a good idea to throw out all internet conventions and have people fight over different names?

i-cann haz rhyme

[alphatel]

The gtld was raffled, everyone was baffled
100k required, everyone perspired
germans won .apple, google won .snapple
no one thought it funny, but ICANN sure made money!

Re:i-cann haz rhyme

[Anonymous Coward]

Burma Shave

Re:The "g" is for global, not generic

[Galestar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

Re:The "g" is for global, not generic

[Desler]

From hereL

Most TLDs with three or more characters are referred to as "generic" TLDs, or "gTLDs". They can be subdivided into two types, "sponsored" TLDs (sTLDs) and "unsponsored TLDs (uTLDs), as described in more detail below.

Fail.

ICANN is doing this on purpose

[damn_registrars]

They are doing the non-English ones first to draw attention to it - and hopefully increase the perceived value of the English ones.

While their intentions are not good, they aren't stupid, either.

Not too worried

[Anonymous Coward]

The good thing about these old protocols like DNS is that it's all distributed. If ICANN royally screw up DNS, I can always use a different root. As it stands, it's not even close to that. I can still get cheap .com domains, and the gTLDs can be ignored. (IP addresses on the other hand are more centrally managed, but there is even less controversy there)

dot rad

[eis2718bob]

The one gTLD that makes sense would be .rad, though I haven't seen this proposed. The idea is to link nationally or internationally assigned radio call signs, to a URL: call_sign.rad.

This is sensible as a gTLD, as there is a one-one correspondence between call signs and legitimate owners. There is a need and value to having a (somewhat) reliable or trustable way to locate the radio stations on the web.

Re:dot rad

[1u3hr]

There is a need and value to having a (somewhat) reliable or trustable way to locate the radio stations on the web.

Instead of creating a TLD, and requiring every radio station to pay for a ".rad" domain. just have whichever authority regulates call signs have a web directory and/or search API. Cost: basically zero. Much more reliable since many radio stations would not bother to get one of your special .rad domains, or would not update it and have it as a dead end.

I hear similar suggestions:"Every movie should have a .movie domain... every porn site should have a .xxx domain ... etc, etc. All equally silly and just put money in the pockets of the registrars and leave us with a bunch of wacky domains that if they work at all probably redirect to a .com anyway.

Otherwise, just Google for your callsign + radio, you'll probably get it first try. The only TLDs that are needed are national and government ones. Everything else is just bullshit that costs the owner money to maintain and and creates opportunities to deceive or confuse users.

Wisdom follows, pay attention!

[Anonymous Coward]

> the first one likely to make it through all the hurdles is an application by the Vatican, for a domain spelling 'catholic' in Chinese.

Doubt that, because China (the P.R.C.) bans the Vatican-controlled global catholic church and runs its own fake, Beijing-controlled "catholic" church. They are extremely serious about that ban, e.g. any han persons caught being vatican-catholic are sent to "re-education" camps for 10 years. Underground Vatican-aligned bishops are also imprisoned and sometimes executed if caught. The opression is probably more serious than that against the Dalai Lama and his buddhist followers.

Essentially PRC is now playing the same "investiture" game against the Vatican's Pope, which the french kings and the holy roman emperors played during the medieval ages about 800 years ago. This is no joke, the PRC would retaliate against ICANN, USA, UN or anybody who tries to mess with their mainland chinese "catholic" church. Considering the success and might of chinese hackers, the USA and ICANN better start worrying.

.cum

[WillgasM]

I know all the new porn sites are scrambling to get their .xxx domains registered, but I still say ".cum" just sounds better.