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- Pillage, on 06/26/2008, -2/+45Finally Clownpenis.fart will be available.
- alapoet, on 06/26/2008, -0/+40One thiing's for sure: It'll be really good for Google.
Because folks will no longer know what the hell the extension is on the site they're looking for. - GardenMandy, on 06/26/2008, -2/+39Won't the web get all messy and confusing if they allow all of those extensions?
- zodiac101, on 06/26/2008, -0/+21www.www.www?
Interesting - Sixark, on 06/26/2008, -1/+18the web will certainly get more interesting if this actually happens . . .
- topgigmedia, on 06/26/2008, -0/+17com.dyslexia.www
- FuryOfThor, on 06/26/2008, -0/+16it'd be cool to see something end in ".www". it'd be all palindromatic and stuff
- bstory, on 06/26/2008, -0/+16Bring on the madness
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+12Click this link to read the article on the relaxed interweb.
wwwww.tech_news.Group_votes_to/digg.com./Relax_Web/Naming_Rules - inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+12Now things get really confusing in cyberspace. What is next? A whole bunch of reorganization on categorizing the infoglut that will follow.
- flangepiece, on 06/26/2008, -2/+14www.goat.sex ...kinda spoils the fun
- Ryosen, on 06/26/2008, -1/+12This will also make it much easier for con artists, scams and phishing sites, as it will be much more difficult to determine the legitimacy of a site. After all, how do you know which is the real site: mybank.com or mybank.bank or mybank.corp or mybank.trustusthisislegit?
- HuskyPuzzle, on 06/26/2008, -0/+10Damn this is big news. Hard to say if it will be good or bad for the web. I can see all the squatters and domain-ers rushing to buy these up ".hotel" domains, but hard to say if they'll ever be worth anything. ".com" will still be the one to have...
- DownloadThis, on 06/26/2008, -0/+9anyone who registers "popularwebsite".cmo is gonna get rich fast.
- psevium, on 06/26/2008, -0/+8Has to be one of the worst decisions, looks so much like a simple grab for money. We have subdomains already that do a fine job, why make unlimited extensions? And for $100k-$500k per tld, it's not much for some companies
- SitPoMk, on 06/26/2008, -0/+8New creative domains ... take that del.icio.us !!
- srujanlive, on 06/26/2008, -2/+9Now each site has to buy its own-name domains... youtube.youtube google.google. Its gonna be one big mess.
- psevium, on 06/26/2008, -0/+7or xom, con, vom, cob. Seems to be handy for phishers
- Ryosen, on 06/26/2008, -2/+9This is just another excuse to coerce companies into buying up every possible domain name combination to protect their brand. It's a crappy move and I hope it gets shot down.
- freakjim, on 06/26/2008, -0/+6"the price for the extended domains could start at $100,000"
I'll take
up.the.a.4.100k - rojano17, on 06/27/2008, -1/+7"Paul Twomey is president and CEO of the Internet"
I thought it was pretty funny. Maybe I'm just giddy today. - inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+7LTDs? I'm not an expert in this field but i believe it is TLD... Top Level Domain.
- Thrilltone, on 06/27/2008, -1/+7.com will still rule
- Braxo, on 06/26/2008, -1/+7Does this mean that for $100,000 you will buy the ".hotel" domain? So you are the sole owner of all the .hotel?
Or is it like Radisson can buy radisson.hotel and marriot can buy marriot.hotel? - inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+7I don't think they're gonna allow that.
"To avoid cyber-squatting, ICANN says those who register a new extension will have to prove they have a viable reason for it, and trademark names will not be auctioned." - cuevas4711, on 06/26/2008, -2/+7meat.spin
- Nothlit, on 06/27/2008, -0/+5I remember sometime around 10 years ago when I first discovered www.com and my mind was blown...
- saxreturns, on 06/26/2008, -4/+9It's not messy and confusing already?
- thebigbradwolf, on 06/27/2008, -0/+4.corn (that's c-o-r-n).
For those who farm, and those who phish. - prisoner24601, on 06/27/2008, -1/+5Well since icann knows it can eventually auction the *entire* dictionary off, they couldn't care less about the confusion issue.
Ford, Chevy, Volvo, Ferrari, all bidding madly for .car or .cars or .auto, etc. The winner then charges whatever they want to the losers so that they can have www.ford.car and www.chevy.car and such. Century 21 and ReMax and all the others bidding on .home or .house or .myhome, etc. Every major industry is going to have a furious bidding war and $100,000 for those sort of names is easy money for icann.
Right now Dell says: "no big deal, no one will be able to have .dell but us since we have the trademark." Then they realize they don't want someone else to have .pc and create a dell.pc or a dell.computer so they bid on .tech and .desktop and .workstation if only to try to keep them from existing.
The guys at icann saw that when they opened .info then every corporation would rush out to get that to prevent cybersquatting. That's why, years later, .com still reigns and fedex gets really annoyed that they have to register fedex.info and fedex.tv and fedex.foo just to make sure someone else doesn't, but they write a check and move on. Now instead of making businesses pre-emptively register a dozen extensions, they will have to register hundreds and icann rakes in the cash EVERY YEAR on the renewal fees. - Kerath, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3So Disney could be disney.disney? That's ridiculous.stupid.
- thebigbradwolf, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3This did not work well for yahoo in the 90s, I doubt it will work well for the internet now.
- geobay, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Hehe...I've been waiting for this day.
- kellymahan, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3sounds like it means whoever buys .hotel will make lots of money off of all the hotel giants.
But also think of some of the great things that could be used.
*.linux would point to the respective distribution.
dallas.tx.hospital would be a list of dallas tx hospitals.
Currently we use search engines to find what we want, but if used and not abused it could be a great improvement to how we use the web. Sadly things probably won't work that way. - evilesttoast, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3looks kinda like an email, damn non-regulation
- ExRe, on 06/27/2008, -1/+4thatcomment.islame
- Elranzer, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2Need to verify your password. Please login to www.ebay.kom
- psevium, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2I don't really think it's required. From a bit of reading we have ~300 TLDs including country codes. That and subdomains wouldn't really make a short supply any time soon.
It just seems like ICANN wants a ***** of money for tlds like .sex, .xxx, .shop, .porn, .play because they'll be auctioned off. I admit that it'll take some time to catch one but there'll probably be a few hundred applied for straight away - 3Den, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2I feel th same - but now let's get realistic...
When WOULD it be permissible to open up the TLD space?
.com is a free-for-all already - what's the difference if it's ".com" or "." ? other than to create a wider playing field.... - masterofthebus, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2i'm old school! i like the w's and the .jp's and .com's,
- aquadeluxe, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2Yay, I can't wait until I can register your.mom
- benplanet, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2this will confused the hell out of everyone! especially novices!! this is a ridiculous plan. why don't they relax the laws on more important issues like torrent sites or sharing...
- SkippyDoorknob, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2The trademark owners will just sue the squatters to get their .hotel domain names.
- KingGorilla, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2Let's not get religious about this
- lemonkey, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2That was my first thought :P
- mrblue182, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2Why? .com works great. This will just lead to the downfall of the internet.
- RyeBrye, on 06/27/2008, -1/+3The additional tld's are a joke. Nobody really uses anything but .com except for cheap bastards.
- Anonymous3, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2"any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters."
It's a good thing ICANN knows that nobody will ever confuse BankOfAmerica.com and the millions of combinations of things that look like ΒanκΟғΑмегіса.com. - s6t9eve, on 06/26/2008, -4/+6www.ssl.americanexpress/com/onlinebank/login/getphised
Don't expect on seeing this anytime soon, upgrading DNSes to deal with the new system will take a while to insure a transition without hickups.
Also... at 100k a piece, it looks like the RULER OF THE INTERNET has found a good way too mkae a hell of alot of cash. I want that job. -
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