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zogger

Fri Jun 27 20:07:00 -0700 2008

Computers.

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The new almost anything goes TLD suffix sale from ICANN will be taking orders starting at $100,000 US, starting perhaps early next year-it is still being reviewed but looks good to go. And you need to show some sort of tech competence and business plan, and have to go through a review process. And speaking of ICANN, apparently they lost control for a little while earlier on.

Dr Twomey said he did not expect there to be thousands of applicants, mostly because of the cost, but added: "We hope there will be a broad range of applications. The key principle is that it is open to all to apply."

ed.z.:...for certain definitions of "all"...

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wowbagger

Sat Jun 28 06:42:42 -0700 2008
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Overall, I think this is nothing but a money-grubbing grab by ICANN and the domain registrars, to make even more fictional "property" to lease to fools who feel they must all domains of the form "$COMPANY_NAME.*".

However, there *is* some good that could come out of this (although I don't think in actuality it will). Consider how the MPAA keeps going after fan sites for movies: what if the MPAA were to create ".movie" (or possibly ".themovie"), and state that all official movie sites were to be under that domain? The MPAA, being the controlling registrar of ".movie" could insure that NO unofficial movies sites would be registered in that domain, and POOF! many of the arguments about fan sites "confusing" the users would go away.

Of course, in many ways this is a similar suggestion to the ".xxx" domain idea - the idea of sorting sites by domain. As such, it does share the same weaknesses.

And of course I don't expect the MPAA to do something as technologically clueful as this, and sacrifice the ability to threaten groundless lawsuits everywhere.

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zogger

Sat Jun 28 07:01:37 -0700 2008
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well, if bill gates dropped off a sack of cash here, we would be seeing zogger.rantz soon.....

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Angus McInnes

Sat Jun 28 20:37:57 -0700 2008
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People who need to own all domains $COMPANY_NAME.* aren't fools. They have to do it to protect their trademark, otherwise they lose their trademark.

To eventually solve this problem, perhaps it would be a good idea for ICANN to lease TLDs at a reasonable price (i.e in the same price range as .com,.org,.net domains) and then eventually close new registrations on .com, .org, .net and other unrestricted TLDs.

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GuyFawkes

Sun Jun 29 03:06:28 -0700 2008
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It's the beginning of the end for the whole DNS system.

DNS only works if the human intelligible "technocrat.net" beats "208.122.3.70" (which doesn't work as it happens)

DNS fails miserably when Bruce has to pay thousands for ".perens" so "technocrat.perens" might make sense to Vinton's wallet, but nowhere else.

For exactly the same reason that "bruce.blogs.features.content.technocrat.net" doesn't work now, or "technocrat.net/content/features/blogs/bruce"

it is too fucking long to be human intelligible...

At one point (I was an early adopter) I had (one word).com .net & .org and of course .co.uk for each of three domains, some time ago I quit and started my own little intranet, all twelve of those domains and now squatted / parked and totally fucking useless to man or beast.

ICANN also only get a fraction of the income from them that they used to get when I bothered with them.

It's just a death spasm, roll on ipv6.

Then I can lose the 192.168.1.x subnet shite and the https://surfbaud.dyndns.org/ shite and everything is accessible from anywhere.

Don't need no stinking DNS.

The next killer app will be one that allows online collaboration and sharing of bookmarks, hmm, tab on my bookmarks for bruce's open source bookmarks, but not for his radio ham bookmarks, and so on...

You saw it here first, in the PD...

"sharing of bookmarks"

Julian Brookes

Sun Jun 29 04:44:45 -0700 2008
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Kind of like http://dmoz.org, perhaps?

Why not just .inc for corporations?

Julian Brookes

Sun Jun 29 04:51:50 -0700 2008
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In the USA at least, you can't have two corporations both called Microsoft. So, there is already a system for allocating names. Why have the web duplicate this? Can't there be a domain set aside for each corporation with the address http://(name_of_corporation).inc ? That way users know it's the official site for that business and businesses don't have to chase down several domains in various different TLDs.