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What Alternative Domain Registrants are out There?

Posted by Cliff on from the the-old-provider-needed-to-be-changed dept.

Zigg asks: "With the story on NSI's webmail "service" and the rant I posted therein, I got a little more information with regards to alternative registrars that have apparently been around a few months now, thanks to ICANN. I was hoping that Slashdot readers could contribute stories of their experiences with some of these guys, to see if any of them really are better than NSI or are just worth checking out because they're not NSI?"

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  1. One word... TLDNS by JoeShmoe · · Score: 5

    -- I HATE TOP LEVEL DOMAINS --

    Everyone is fighting over .com addresses...the dumbest, most ambiguous endings possible. What the hell is "com" supposed to mean? Commercial? What the hell kind of category is that? It more likely should stand for "common". If I have to spend money, I should be able to get an address that I really want...like

    www.joe.shmoe

    Or for famous corporations...

    www.microsoft.inc

    Or for specialized products...

    www.redhat.linux


    WHY WHY WHY is it that ICANN and/or Network Solutions still feels it is necessary to try and group things into categories?

    It's all BS. No one respects the categories. A big company like Microsoft is going to have microsoft.com microsoft.net microsoft.org. If you create a .web top level domain, Microsoft will demand this one too. If you created a top level domain .tractors there is a good chance that Microsoft would try to take it, even though the law allows for two companies to hold the same trademark, if they are in unrelated fields.

    On the other hand, if there ARE no stupid categories, and you can have infinite choice, then companies can register their LEGAL name (like Microsoft, Incorporated is www.microsoft.inc) and I can do get www.microsoft.sucks or whatever else I want. There are simply too many possible domain combinations for TLDNS (http://www.tldns.com/download/) is trying to accomplish. If we could get major browsers to automatically install TLDNS support then suddenly the Internet would be a whole new world overnight.

    - JoeShmoe

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    -- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing