As an aside, having your entire blog italicized might look « better » on the eye but it's incredibly laborious to read.
I bought netflix.soy
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
The validity of this effect has been called into question, but for a long time, this was the "standard response" to situations like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
Yeah the Kitty Genovese (sp) story is an example right? Wasn’t that proven to be a myth or something?
Yes, just like Stockholm Syndrome, it was made up to cover up a bungled police response. Neither one is a real thing.
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#233Interestingly, 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…
Even better yet, it would be interesting if we just abandoned TLDs. There is no reason why http://google/ can't work, really, with a bunch of infrastructure changes.
I was pondering about the idea of a browser extension for a sort of local DNS. Paying for domains could be ditched if everyone had a local copy of a database that mapped any character sequence (even emojis) to a server address that would get filled in by the extension in the url bar. Not sure if it would extend to mobile or all websites, but could work similar to a social network in the sense that you need to get the extension (i.e. access) first, and then you can find someone just by using a string that they've provided. Combined with something like Github pages it would offer a full free solution.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happens if I have a computer on my network named ai? Wouldn't it cause a conflict? I called my FreeNAS box freenas because I didn't feel very creative, and I can browse to it as http://freenas or http://freenas./ but if they took a domain of 'freenas' suddenly that means I have to do extra work and rename my stuff. Doesn't seem fair!
You should have used a reserved TLD like `.local'. If you set it as the local domain name `ai' and `ai.local' would work. `ai.' would not work, as the dot at the end tells it to look at the top level. (like the slash at the beginning of an absolute path)
Ah yes I forgot that, .local does work so I guess that fixes that problem.
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#235"Did you know it costs a minimum of $185,000 to create your own domain name ending? For that kind of money, I think ICANN, the registries and registrar sites have a massive responsibility to ensure that this never happens." No they don't. The same problem exists with subdomains, for example some users may visit "netflix.trustworthy-sounding-domain.com" and not notice the issue. Meanwhile, using a weird TLD can raise…
netflix.trustworthy-sounding-domain.com isn't really the same though. If I own netflix.trustworthy-sounding-domain.com, I can create facebook.trustworthy-sounding-domain.com, google.trustworthy-sounding-domain.com, etc simply by creating new DNS records. No one but myself is involved, or even know they exist (unless I put links to them somewhere public). On the other hand, someone owns and operates .soy, and has to a…
Let me explain. The problem is that somebody malicious might impersonate another company through a domain name.
So they send people emails with URLs like "netflix.user-support.com" where "user-support.com" is owned by the malicious actor. This is extremely common.
I honestly don't see any other problem. How else would you get people to visit "netflix.soy", if not by the same mechanism? It doesn't matter who controls which part of the domain, users are either going to notice the odd parts of the domain, or they are not. The fact that one is a TLD and the other isn't doesn't really make a difference, at least for uncommon TLDs.
> On the other hand, someone owns and operates .soy, and has to actually approve new domains getting created. Part of that process could be a step that automatically screens for scammy looking registrations.
Yes, but that wouldn't do anything to solve the problem. It would only make things more expensive. I honestly don't see the issue with anybody owning "netflix.soy" unless they're malicious, but in that case owning "netflix.anything-else.com" would be just as bad, if not worse. Since we can't really prevent the latter case, preventing the former case is moot.
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#236The weird-looking symbols also go the other way around: if your language uses umlauts, you can score very good .com domains. For example, I have the equivalents to email.org, entrepreneur.com, and hacks.com in my native language. Some of these domains receive so much type-in traffic that they pay themselves in ad revenue each year.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah the Kitty Genovese (sp) story is an example right? Wasn’t that proven to be a myth or something?
Yes, just like Stockholm Syndrome, it was made up to cover up a bungled police response. Neither one is a real thing.
Source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome#FBI_Law_Enf... says it's rare but FBI seems to be saying it is a real thing.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, just like Stockholm Syndrome, it was made up to cover up a bungled police response. Neither one is a real thing.
Source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome#FBI_Law_Enf... says it's rare but FBI seems to be saying it is a real thing.
FBI isn't exactly a trustworthy source of psychology. Psychologists and the DSM do not recognise it as a real thing.
Here is the backstory of how it was created: https://twitter.com/sezmohammed/status/1252500993972948992
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
UDRP typically rules in favor of the holder of the unambiguous trademark in these kinds of cases. As an example, "Exxon Mobil" refers unambiguously to a single entity only, and has no other possible uses, so anyone registering exxonmobil.{anything} would lose if the company came after them. No one else has any right to that trademark, and ICANN enforces trademark rights on domains. If the trademark already existed wh…
What about .sucks? Couldn’t one claim free speech? https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2015/06/29/saga-of-suc...
I built a tool to analyze UDRP Cases. If you're truly curious https://udrp.tools/?s=aad5d8d0
You can see every domain with SUCKS in it filed against and the outcome. 66 Granted (complainant won). 35 Denied. 4 Split.
My favorite domain filed against from the list: guinness-beer-really-really-sucks.com also against the guy who got the anti cyber squatting legislation created by pointing disney typos to porn.
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#240Registering unambiguous trademark domains falls under the category of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
Could anything worse than losing out on the registration fees ever actually happen?
Absolutely. Some countries have laws against it, they could file in normal court (not UDRP). US the limit is $100,000 per domain under ACPA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Pr...)
Also if you lose one case, you are likely to have that used against you in the future (pattern of behavior). So any subsequent defense may be weaker in a system that already strongly favors TM holders.