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ICANN Reveals Regional Winners of New gTLDs

Posted by timothy on 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."

9 of 69 comments (clear)

  1. Refreshing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perfect. Now I can launch my new imageboard muhammed.qatartelecom

  2. Re:Effort and time is not the same as accomplishme by Ubi_NL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I thought it was just a cash grab operation by ICANN

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    If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
  3. My opinion by Richy_T · · 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 · · 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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      MaraDNS is an open-source DNS server.
  4. To see actual results by Anonymous Coward · · 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 · · 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 · · 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."

  5. Hoarding by ChrisSlicks · · 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?

  6. Re:great antispam, please try to send me some spam by earthloop · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are all ASCII in DNS:
    Punycode