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Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by sp332 »

andrewheins wrote: post #64
sp332 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well it's up to whoever runs the root DNS for the domain I guess. But I've never heard of a domain with a default. edit: oh never mind i'm being thick :)

And this isn't necessarily about people wanting to find apple's main website. Apple would have control over all subdomains and hosts in the namespace. They could give a subdomain to every app in the app store. So if you want the Pandora app, you don't navigate to Pandora.com were you might see ads for other mobile devices. https://www.pandora.com/everywhere/mobile You would go to Pandora.apple and only see the iOS mobile app.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by aeden »

adrianb wrote: post #73
alan_cx wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to know how a doughnut company could get .world

It's not a doughnut company, it's a VC-founded internet startup!

And even if it were a doughnut company they'd still have every right to apply for it. No one has gotten anything yet. :-)

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by jimktrains2 »

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.

I've personally always thought that tlds was dumb. I never understood why things needed to be partitioned like that. Is there any technical reason to have them?

Also, it's very bothersome that domains are backwards. It's always irked me.

That being said, the amount of money required for a gTLD is absurd.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by uxp »

alan_cx wrote: post #48
AshleysBrain wrote: post #28

What happens when several companies want the same one? There's a whole bunch of companies going for .app, so who gets which domains?

I want to know how a doughnut company could get .world

donuts.co is a domain registrar (and/or holding company). They're probably a broker for a large number of other companies, because various other @donut.co email addresses for a multitude of other custom TLDs are present on this list, with the email address username generally matching up to a slugified version of the applicant name.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by Spooky23 »

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!

Car companies were late to the internet game the first time, and probably don't want to be left out again. Some car companies paid through the nose to domain squatters, others were unsuccessful (ie. nissan.com)

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by twelvechairs »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #68
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.

Possibly. But say I'm starting a video-sharing website - I'm at a big competitive disadvantage when my customers need to type and remember an extra domain-name level compared to my competitors (who own '.video', '.movie', '.youtube', etc. while i might own '.bobsvideo.fail').

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by freehunter »

rpledge wrote: post #75
freehunter wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

.dot would be funny, imagine telling people to go to dot.dot or even slashdot.dot

It would be fitting, considering slashdot was named such as a pun from the days when you needed to type http://slashdot.com. When you told someone out loud how to get to the site, it came across as http colon slash slash slash dot dot com. They could renew the joke with http colon slash slash slash dot dot dot.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by roop »

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…

Just guessing: Maybe the .apple won't be used for the root apple site, but could be useful for microsites like ipad.apple or icloud.apple? Or, heck, they could have just applied lest some cybersquatter gets hold of that TLD.
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