ICANN Reveals Regional Winners of New gTLDs

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ICANN Reveals Regional Winners of New gTLDs

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 23, 2013 @08:32AM from the the-envelope-please dept.

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."

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Refreshing by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-23 08:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Perfect. Now I can launch my new imageboard muhammed.qatartelecom
Effort and time is not the same as accomplishment by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-23 08:41 · Score: 2, Insightful

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.
Re:Effort and time is not the same as accomplishme by Ubi_NL · 2013-03-23 08:45 · Score: 5, Insightful

I thought it was just a cash grab operation by ICANN

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My opinion by Richy_T · 2013-03-23 09:03 · Score: 4, Interesting

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
1. Re:My opinion by MaraDNS · 2013-03-23 10:04 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  I posted about this before and I will probably have to post this again: Where's this alternative to DNS everyone keeps talking about on Slashdot?
  If you don't like that the ICANN is doing, (shameless plug) it's pretty easy to download and install an open-source (BSD licensed) recursive DNS server (even on Windows), then use the program to blacklist ICANN's new domains.
  If you don't want to use my program, I am sure other DNS servers, such as Unbound and BIND (which usually comes with Linux) have similar capabilities.
  
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To see actual results by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-23 09:04 · Score: 5, Informative

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.
1. Re:To see actual results by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-23 09:37 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  The 27 are (and I'm not joking), including what Google Translate makes of it:
  (= Fashion in Japanese)
  (= Group in Chinese)
  (= Network in Arabic)
  (= One shop in Chinese)
  (Kerry Hotel in Chinese)
  (Kerry in Chinese)
  vermögensberater (asset consultant in German)
  (Shop in Chinese)
  (Amazon in Japanese)
  (Website in Chinese)
  (Catholic in Arabic)
  (Catholic church in Chinese)
  (Store in Japanese)
  (World in Chinese)
  (CITIC in Chinese)
  (Website in Chinese)
  (Arabs in Arabic)
  (Com in Hindi)
  (Shangri-La in Chinese)
  (Mosaic in Arabic)
  (Qtel in Arabic)
  (Gossip in Chinese)
  (Point of view in Chinese)
  (site in Russian)
  (online in Russian)
  (Great to take in Chinese)
  (Store in Chinese)
  You're welcome.
  Feel free to correct the translations if you're a native speaker. ;)
2. Re:To see actual results by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-23 09:41 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  And now posted to Pastebin.com, because Slashdot can't handle awesomeness:
  http://pastebin.com/tUruZvCN
  I had to wait 6 minutes before I could post this, by the way. Slashdot told me:
  "You must wait a little bit (6 minutes) before using this resource; please try again later."
Hoarding by ChrisSlicks · 2013-03-23 09:15 · Score: 5, Informative

Of the 1930 total applications, 307 are from a single company "Donuts" (donuts.co) using a boat load of Delaware shelf companies.
Hoard much?
1. Re:Hoarding by ChrisSlicks · 2013-03-23 09:32 · Score: 2
  
  A shelf company is a form of shell company, one that is formed and left idle (on the shelf) for later reuse after an aging period. All the shells I looked up were over 1 year old. I'm sure they have older ones in their available inventory.
The REAL list by DavidClarkeHR · 2013-03-23 09:29 · Score: 2

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).

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Re:great antispam, please try to send me some spam by earthloop · 2013-03-23 11:09 · Score: 3, Informative

There are all ASCII in DNS:
Punycode
".vermögensberater"? by Dr.Dubious+DDQ · 2013-03-23 11:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Do people just plain never actually type URLs anymore? Where do I line up to get my "meinweltanshauungistganzherabgesetzt.vermögensberater" domain?

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1. Re:".vermögensberater"? by Briareos · 2013-03-23 11:49 · Score: 2
  
  Yeah, I just threw up in my mouth a little when I read that - and I speak German as my first language and thought I could stomach everything.
  Of all the words they could have chosen it absolutely has to be the sleaziest one besides "Anwalt"?
  (No wait, "financial advisor" in this day and age might even surpass "lawyer" as the sleaziest one...)
  
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Re:great antispam, please try to send me some spam by AmiMoJo · 2013-03-23 15:34 · Score: 2

Actually due to the lack of IDN a lot of Chinese sites are just numbers, e.g. 858735.com. They treat it like a phone number. Not everyone can get on with Latin characters.

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