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ICANN Reveals Regional Winners of New gTLDs
hypnosec writes "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved and released a list of domain names as per its new global Top Level Domain plans. A total of 27 domain names have been cleared for use by ICANN, and all of them are non-English domain names. Consisting of Chinese and Arabic names, the list of domain names seems to be mostly for regional companies, prominent among which are the .Qatartelecom and .Mozaic domains."
Perfect. Now I can launch my new imageboard muhammed.qatartelecom
Announcing the development through a press release, ICANN reiterated the amount of efforts and time that have been spent for the development and implementation of policies to bring about innovation and diversity in the Domain Name System.
Further confirms that diversity is another word for stupidity.
I thought it was just a cash grab operation by ICANN
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
Time to throw global DNS system to trash...
Private DNS servers removing shit like this? If popularised will probably discourage companies to use such TLDs.
Entirely new DNS system? Decentralised?
It's the beginning of the end of the current DNS system. About time too. The internet should never have tolerated such a centralized abomination
To see approved domain names, click on the first link, select IE Result from the Search By Field, and then select Pass from the drop down and search. Else you get a huge list of everything.
GTFO!
Of the 1930 total applications, 307 are from a single company "Donuts" (donuts.co) using a boat load of Delaware shelf companies.
Hoard much?
The actual list can be found by searching by IE results, and selecting pass. I'd post it here, but the character encoding won't display since most are english (or even english-ish).
- Nec Impar Pluribus, or so I'm told.
But they can do the both at the same time.
I tried to even type an email using one of those TLD in this comment and failed, now explain me how that will work under other current software implementations. This is just a big fail, like most IDN. Anyone can type [a-Z], but not most of those TLDs.
I gave up with the idea of an useful sig...
Making this information public is kind of counterproductive (for them, not us,) as now everyone has a handy addition to paste into their spam blacklists, right after '*.info'.
Would be nice to see the list of the 27 without having to do any searching.
Check out ANTIVIRUS tld - it's now owned by Symantec Corporation. So will any author of antivirus-related software be able to get a subdomain, or will Symantec try to confuse people by favouring their own business when approving domains? Because if so, this is no longer marketing, this is insolence. It is an attempt to obstruct people's ability to take informed decisions regarding antivirus software, in order to make people pay money to Symantec when it may not be in their best interess.
As far as I can tell, not a single one of the new approved gTLDs can be written using standard ASCII, and only one of them can be written with Extended ASCII. While this does mean that there isn't a key on a standard US keyboard for every single letter in every one of these new gTLDs, there are (or at least a well-known key combination) in the countries which are the target market for these domains. With regard to SPAM, I think you will find that much (if not most) of it comes from non-US sources; places where they are likely to have the necessary keyboards to type at least one of these strings.
I would include the list of approved gTLDs, but Slashdot seems to filter non-ASCII characters. Here is a link to the list sorted sorted by status (with the approved gTLDs at the top.)
Do people just plain never actually type URLs anymore? Where do I line up to get my "meinweltanshauungistganzherabgesetzt.vermögensberater" domain?
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Holy shit... What the hell ever happened to the "Read the rest of this comment" functionality of /.??????
I can only see this new extension work w/ IPv6, which will probably have all the address space for such contraptions. If they try using these w/ IPv4, they'll smoke whatever is left - with NAT - and then some.
Well, since the bulk of these are there to support foreign language sites, there is no way ASCII could possibly support it. Not all the internet is made for worldwide consumption. How often do you visit Mandarin or Arabic sites? But keyboards made that support Unicode would have no problems typing these.
The rotten and corrupt Domain Name System.
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Shouldn't an authority such as ICANN understand its responsibility and maintain a certain conservatism towards silly things like this?
I checked and it was applied by VeriSign from Switzerland. And they say, and I quote, in their application "We anticipate that the availability of the DEVANAGARI_TRANSLITERATION_OF_.COM will greatly increase the appeal and value of internationalized addresses in India. Expanding the accessibility and functionality of these domain names to users worldwide is the primary benefit of all internationalized transliterations of .com."
I am ROFL, at their lack of how Indians think and work. This falls along the line of the one guys iPhone app, in app store.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tamil-clock/id300552568?mt=8
He does have other regional clock apps also.
These people have no clue about the life styles and choices of the people in those regions. Only Indians know why a tamil/hindi/sanskrit clock will never sell and why an hindi .com transliterated domain name will never fly.
I will keep checking if any one ever gets a hindi .com and if any of the big names like suleka, sify and others ever care.
You're both right - set a precedent for approving TLDs for commercial entities under the auspices of diversity and then the floodgates are open.
Long signatures suck.