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Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by nakkiel »

riffraff wrote: post #22
seiji wrote: post #3

Google wants: .ads, .and, .android, .app, .are, .baby, .blog, .boo, .book, .buy, .cal, .car (no .cdr?), .channel, .chrome, .cloud, .corp (great way to snoop on poorly configured intranets), .cpa, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dds (New: Google Dentist!), .dev, .diy, .docs, .dog, .dot, .drive, .earth, .eat, .esq, .est, .family, .film, .fly, .foo, .free, .fun, .fyi, .game, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .gmbh (really?), .goo, .goog, .googl…

FWIW, in google's list, what the heck is ".srl" supposed to be? (maybe the italian/spanish/romanian equivalent of .llc) EDIT: I meant, is google really asking for "a domain for limited liability company acronym in some romance languages" or is there something that makes more sense?

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRL):

Società a Responsabilità Limitata, Italian Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada, Spanish Societate cu Răspundere Limitată, Romanian

Close enough:

Société à responsabilité limitée (aka SARL), French

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by sp332 »

andrewheins wrote: post #33

Is there a default domain for these tlds? Let's take .home for example. How will this work when typing it into a browser? If you have my.home, it makes sense. If you type www.home, it really looks ugly, but I guess it works, and we've spent the past few years moving away from including "www" as a whole. Typing "com" into my url bar doesn't get me anywhere, so I'm assuming typing "home" won't either. If I bought "appl…

You mean is there a default host for these domains? I doubt it, that's not how domains work. These will be alongside .com .org .gov etc. It's a domain name, not a host name. Expecting to get somewhere when you type ".com" or ".home" into your address bar is like typing "192.168" and expecting to get a "default host" for your local network.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by mootothemax »

andrewheins wrote: post #33

Is there a default domain for these tlds? Let's take .home for example. How will this work when typing it into a browser? If you have my.home, it makes sense. If you type www.home, it really looks ugly, but I guess it works, and we've spent the past few years moving away from including "www" as a whole. Typing "com" into my url bar doesn't get me anywhere, so I'm assuming typing "home" won't either. If I bought "appl…

Is there a default domain for these tlds? Let's take .home for example. How will this work when typing it into a browser?

I believe it's possible to set things up so that "home" or "co.uk" on their own will work. As below, my memory is hazy, and I have no idea how many RFCs this behaviour might violate, but I certainly remember us doing so.

My background: many, many years ago, I used to work for a minor country-code tld, and we set up fun email addresses such as: a@cctld or t@cctld (for Tom ;-)). My memory is hazy, but I think this violates some RFC somewhere. Mail still got delivered, though.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by freehunter »

TomGullen wrote: post #19

I love the long ones like '.BARCLAYCARD', '.BLOOMINGDALES' pretty funny. Looks like a corporate suit decision to buy those. Not sure what the other part of the domain will be for these as well: "Visit www.bloomingdales!" Lots of confusion on the way! I'm not too impressed with ones such as '.CANCERRESEARCH' paid for by the 'Australian Cancer Research Foundation'. What a waste of money.

I could see pay.barclaycard or apply.barclaycard. shop.bloomingdales and fashion.bloomingdales would work as well. donate.cancerresearch would work, but I'll grant you the money could be better spent.

Basically what these new TLDs are for is to eliminate the .com in shop.bloomingdales.com.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

riffraff wrote: post #22
seiji wrote: post #3

Google wants: .ads, .and, .android, .app, .are, .baby, .blog, .boo, .book, .buy, .cal, .car (no .cdr?), .channel, .chrome, .cloud, .corp (great way to snoop on poorly configured intranets), .cpa, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dds (New: Google Dentist!), .dev, .diy, .docs, .dog, .dot, .drive, .earth, .eat, .esq, .est, .family, .film, .fly, .foo, .free, .fun, .fyi, .game, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .gmbh (really?), .goo, .goog, .googl…

FWIW, in google's list, what the heck is ".srl" supposed to be? (maybe the italian/spanish/romanian equivalent of .llc) EDIT: I meant, is google really asking for "a domain for limited liability company acronym in some romance languages" or is there something that makes more sense?

Probably Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada. As you said, equivalent to Llc or Ltd.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by twelvechairs »

So basically, we are creating a two-tier internet where people with money can pay a lot for nice names and others will be considered cheap for having a .com at the end? Way to go democratic internet....

I wonder if they actually stopped long enough to consider the actual pros and cons on this.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by freehunter »

kibwen wrote: post #26

I'm curious why some of those rows are colored blue (IDN, KIDS, UMMAH). I also wonder what effect this will have on domain squatting (probably very little, all told). Anyone have any favorites? I see .DOT (dot.dot, anyone?), .WINNERS, .SUCKS (more desirable than .SEX), .NINJA, .MATRIX (registered by L'Oreal rather than HP, sadly), .IRA (financial planning and domestic terrorism in one convenient location), and absolu…

I'm surprised the US government didn't go for .dot, as in Department of Transportation. You could replace www.michigan.gov/mdot with mi.dot.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by tripa »

riffraff wrote: post #22
seiji wrote: post #3

Google wants: .ads, .and, .android, .app, .are, .baby, .blog, .boo, .book, .buy, .cal, .car (no .cdr?), .channel, .chrome, .cloud, .corp (great way to snoop on poorly configured intranets), .cpa, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dds (New: Google Dentist!), .dev, .diy, .docs, .dog, .dot, .drive, .earth, .eat, .esq, .est, .family, .film, .fly, .foo, .free, .fun, .fyi, .game, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .gmbh (really?), .goo, .goog, .googl…

FWIW, in google's list, what the heck is ".srl" supposed to be? (maybe the italian/spanish/romanian equivalent of .llc) EDIT: I meant, is google really asking for "a domain for limited liability company acronym in some romance languages" or is there something that makes more sense?

FWIW, it makes sense in French, though the canonical acronym in France is actually SARL.
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