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Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by TomGullen »

freehunter wrote: post #54
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.

I'd like to here the Australian Cancer Research Foundation's reasoning behind registering it.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by millerfung »

Can you imagine what would all these look like in 5 years (even 2 maybe)? It is going to look messy! I mean I like the idea of it and surely it would looks elegant if it weren't abuse...but I think this is not happening..

People are pouring money into these TLD as well... Sad to say, but I see a totally different future, these are totally different to real estate, this is a digital world, maybe these .com, .app thing won't even needed, no address at all in the future, replace by something else, like on Facebook where you type say Dropbox, then suggested site just come out

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by hangnail_lobby »

Karunamon wrote: post #16

Man this is going to be a mess. Guess I'd better get used to the fact that the days of easily rememberable TLDs are gone.

This is a complete and total mess. Worse, when registering with one of these corp tld operators, how much can you trust they'll be around in XX number of years to keep your domain name alive?

Google will win big out of this, not because of the number of tld's they will own, but because the browser's address bar will become useless without a search engine.

Good opportunity for next-gen domain name resolvers!

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by andrewheins »

sp332 wrote: post #52
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.

And thus my question about a conventional default. It just seems to me that buying the gTLD will leave users fairly confused.

If you want to access Apple (generically), users will still go to apple.com because even if they know that there's a .apple domain, what's the root host?

My best guess is a conventional default emerges shortly.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

adrianb wrote: post #57
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #35

Apparently nobody has applied for .localhost yet.

.localdomain would be better.

Also .local

"Despite not being a valid top-level domain in the Internet, considerable DNS traffic that queries the local domain exists in the public Domain Name System.[1] In June 2009, the L root server received more than 400 such queries per second,[2] ranking 4th in DNS traffic of all TLDs after COM, ARPA, and NET." [1]

Scary potential for mischief-making. Hopefully ICANN would reject applications for these domains, but I'm not sure I'd take that level of competence for granted.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by freehunter »

mootothemax wrote: post #53
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…

This would be tricky for LANs. I'm not sure too many corporate network admins would be happy with the amount of work they'd have to do to change up all the DNS entries when "test" no longer routes to "test.company.com" while you're on the company.com domain. You'd have a riot when the development staff has to take a couple weeks to change over all their pathnames.

I'm of the opinion that RFCs don't matter if they're not being enforced. What matters is the implementation that exists in the real world. It doesn't matter what the ITU says 4G is supposed to be when 4G already implemented as something completely different. What would make sense is www.home routing to the default .home domain.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by andrewheins »

mootothemax wrote: post #53
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…

See, that's really interesting. I wonder if that's been patched since then.

It just seems weird to have a tld absent a host.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by AndrewDucker »

twelvechairs wrote: post #56

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.

The people that own most of these tlds will then sell domains on to ordinary people.

So give it time and you, too, can have a .fail domain.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by freehunter »

riffraff wrote: post #29
jnorthrop wrote: post #2

With a quick look there are some interesting things. Doesn't look like too many consumer companies came out to play. One of note is that Coca-Cola did not bid on .coke nor did P&G bid on anything.

car companies seem to be on board, I can see brands for ford, general motors, fiat, toyota, audi, nissan. No french though, quick, let's grab .renault!

If you bought .renault you'd just be setting yourself up for hardware failures and slow performance :)
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