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Google Taking Over New TLDs

Posted by Soulskill on from the publicly-traded-beasts-must-feed dept.

bobo the hobo writes: In the corner of the internet where people care about DNS, there is a bit of an uproar at Google's application for over a hundred new top-level domains, including .dev, .lol, .app, .blog, .cloud and .search. Their application includes statements such as: "By contrast, our application for the .blog TLD describes a new way of automatically linking new second level domains to blogs on our Blogger platform – this approach eliminates the need for any technical configuration on the part of the user and thus makes the domain name more user friendly." They also mention limiting usage of .dev to Google only: "Second-level domain names within the proposed gTLD are intended for registration and use by Google only, and domain names under the new gTLD will not be available to the general public for purchase, sale, or registration. As such, [Google's shell company] intends to apply for an exemption to the ICANN Registry Operator Code of Conduct as Google is intended to be the sole registrar and registrant."

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  1. Re: Concentration of power is evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    systemd

  2. Re: Concentration of power is evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    HOSTS

  3. Re: Concentration of power is evil by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    DHT will replace DNS

    Dihydrotestosterone will replace DNS? Just great, now we'll all go bald.

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  4. Re:And no one cares by swillden · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, then that's their limitation, not mine. I am tired of this trend of dumbing things down to the lowest possible.

    Damn straight. It's like all these stupid GUI interfaces. I mean, I can see using a graphical interface if you're editing photos or something, but for reading and writing text? It's ridiculous and just makes it so that stupid people can do it without having to understand anything.

    It all started with visual text editors, you know? Line editing was good enough, heck, you could argue that it made things too easy, too. What was really good was when we used toggle switches to enter data and read the output from a sequence of lights. If you can't mentally translate binary to ASCII you don't deserve the power of computation.

    </sarcasm>

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  5. Re:do no evil by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Domain squatting is over. I, for one, welcome our new entire TLD squatting overlords. </sarcasm>

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