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new TLD: .BOT

#1

Post by _jomo » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 1:05 PM UTC

new TLD: .BOT
nic.bot

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#2

Post by toyg » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 3:34 PM UTC

It would be awesome if Amazon could force registrants to contractually agree to follow Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics.

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#3

Post by ocdtrekkie » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 3:42 PM UTC

Time from registration opening to ro.bot being taken: Mere milliseconds.

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#4

Post by Fastidious » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 3:53 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #3

Time from registration opening to ro.bot being taken: Mere milliseconds.

I doubt it will be available. Normally two letters domains are reserved.

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#5

Post by JosephRedfern » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 3:55 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #3

Time from registration opening to ro.bot being taken: Mere milliseconds.

I thought the same, but [a-z]{2}.bot are all reserved: http://whois.nic.bot/whoismtld/html/default/reservednames.ht...

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 3:55 PM UTC

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#7

Post by ape4 » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 4:01 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #3

Time from registration opening to ro.bot being taken: Mere milliseconds.

dot.bot would be good.

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#8

Post by Zikes » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 4:05 PM UTC

Surprisingly few "clever" possibilities: http://rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=*bot&typeofrhyme=perfe...

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#9

Post by praseodym » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 4:05 PM UTC

A TLD for all your infected Windows machines \o/

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#10

Post by gnoway » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 4:06 PM UTC

This is really going to help a lot of sites protect themselves - right now we just have the evil bit, but being able to block addresses with a ptr in .bot should eliminate drive-by defacement altogether.

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