Earlier quoted context omitted.
ICANN doesn't allow A records on the DNS root on gTLDs. If they did, we already would've.
http://cm./ used to resolve
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would only work if the Hebrew keyboard layout they were using had this mapping of letters. Most language layouts for non-Roman scripts don't optimize for phonetically approximating the corresponding English letters (presumably on a QWERTY layout). It appears that they don't match to the TLD letters here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_keyboard
That's correct. Typing 'com' with the keyboard set to Hebrew results in 'בםצ' (which is not even pronounceable) not 'קום'. The Hebrew keyboard layout has no relation to QWERTY in terms of phonetics.
There is a Hebrew phonetic keyboard layout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_keyboard#Hebrew_on_stan... it's built in on Android, windows, Linux, etc.
Usually used by non-native Hebrew speakers.
> 'בםצ' (which is not even pronounceable)
Sounds like a new snack from Osem :)
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#93> Did you know it costs a minimum of $185,000 to create your own domain name ending? If I were a blackhat with money, I'd register the ".con" TLD. ... Sure hoping a whitehat gets it first.
But it's not like a self service portal, it goes through review and would probably be rejected for obvious reasons.
There are guidelines provided by icann
http://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/comments-en.htm
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#94> Truthully, I think its pretty bad that I was able to do this. It is not. The explosion of TLDs is bad. It's simply a racket. But, Google supported it. So if they happen to suffer some of the consequences... so be it.
Explosions of TLDs is bad!? Why?. It got rid of impossible to buy good sounding and short names, largely massive multi million dollar companies holding onto them. Explosions of TLDs literally has absolutely no downsides besides the security and phishing implications. It just wiped out the domain mafias and replaced it with a massive competitive marketplace.
Many of the gTLDs charge exorbitant yearly fees for "premium" domains as a means of recouping costs. I pay $300/yr for {myFirstName}.dev. It's extortion, and I might drop it.
With many of the common domain suffixes now becoming TLDs, branding seems much more difficult since you have to buy multiple domains. Is it audiotech.com? audio.tech? tech.audio? Who knows.
I don't think that I would call this better.
My opinion is that Google wants to erode the open web and is using gTLD proliferation to make it confusing to consumers. Instead of remembering a URL, just Google for it.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Companies like Mark Monitor will buy all of the .tld's for you-- and continually grab new ones (as the set of TLDs is constantly growing). At Netflix's size, I would assume they would've paid for such a service.
Could someone register a tld and charge a crazy amount of money for it, to extort big companies?
No, they can use their trademark to take control of the domain without paying any money through UDRP.
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#96There's a terrible enterprise security product that can be configured by IT to quasi-MITM your company web traffic. Instead of relying on enterprises pushing their own trusted root certs and MITMing the whole session this terrible product redirects all traffic to (and I'm not kidding here) urls like "www.terriblesecuritycompanyname.com/www.originalurl.com" when the user accesses www.originalurl.com. So this "enterpri…
It depends on which ethical framework you subscribe to, but if I were in your shoes using my ethical framework, it seems like the small cost to me to purchasing an available domain (making the assumption here it's a standard buy and it's not one of those "make an offer for $10k" domains...) to mitigate a lot of potential hurt to other people would make me lean toward just purchasing the domain myself, or at least mak…
Your ethical framework in this case could clash with the arguably broken legal framework that we currently live in.
Buying a domain like that could get you into legal trouble once it is found out and people track sensitive traffic funneling to the domain. Even if you aren't doing anything with the information.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
ICANN doesn't allow A records on the DNS root on gTLDs. If they did, we already would've.
http://cm./ used to resolve
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974111
http://to./ used to be a URL shortener.
Either the rules on ccTLDs are different, or it's a recentish crackdown.
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#98A somewhat relevant project of mine, where you can test how good you are at spotting these sort of domains: https://www.jamieweb.net/apps/lookalike-domains-test/
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#99Interestingly, I recently saw a couple a couple of google.* domains available on Google Domains, including some reasonable-sounding ones: IIRC, google.tech (edit: google.page), google.business, and google.camp. Tried to purchase them but they instantly became unavailable the moment I tried to do so. The cynic in me thinks that Google has a special check for those and renews it themselves if someone tries… More genera…
There is no way you'd get a "google" domain under any extension but even if you register a domain with "google" + something else you're going to lose it in a UDRP anyway. It's possible that google and other major brand names don't have to register every extension, the names are just reserved for them alone, should they want them.
It is unlikely that google owns trademarks in all countries for all trademark types.
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#100A Google domain name is lying on the ground. An IT guy walks past it. A friend asks: "Didn't you see the Google domain name there?" The IT guy replies: "I thought I saw something, but I must've imagined it. If there had been a Google domain on the ground, someone would've picked it up."
For anyone unfamiliar, this is a clever riff on a classic economics joke about the Efficient Market Hypothesis [1].
"Two economists are walking down the street and one of them notices what appears to be a $20 bill (or a $100 bill—the monetary amounts vary) on the sidewalk. “It’s not a real $20 bill,” the other economist declares. “If it were a real $20 bill, someone would have picked it up off the sidewalk already.”
[1]: https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/if_...