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Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by jerf »

tucson wrote: post #77
makecheck wrote: post #20

Yeesh...in case there was any doubt beforehand that this is a terrible idea, the initial list is now proof. They have taken something that has a valid technical reason to exist and turned it into a cesspool. Hopefully those in control of infrastructure take a stand and simply reject these "domains" entirely. Shouldn't be hard to set up sanity-restoring filters...let us please just pretend these are spam domains and n…

> this will do nothing to improve the size of the name space It opens new options for "local" addresses: biketour.berlin biketour.paris antics.london etc wether this will stick is another story.

biketour.berlin.ge biketour.paris.fr antics.london.uk

Nope, there's room for all of those things in the current scheme.

Might I add that none of those cities are the only city to have that name, and that the country part carries real information?

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by rachelbythebay »

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…

Try entering "ac" or "ac." in your browser. It's a TLD with an A record, so it should just work.

If you have a host on your domain also named that, well, things might get interesting depending on how your resolvers work (domains, search order, dotting, whatever). Plus, if you're in a corporate environment or something else with a proxy, add all of those demons, too.

Buckle up.

(Random trivia: I checked all 676 two-letter possibilities, and these are the ones which should work: AC AI CM DK GG IO JE KH PN SH TK TM TO UZ VI WS)

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by rmc »

rufibarbatus wrote: post #47
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…

.cat is registered by Catalan organisation puntCAT. According to Wikipedia, its intended use is to promote the Catalan language and culture, these pages notwithstanding: http://nyan.cat/ http://lol.cat/ http://crypto.cat/ (hey, at least it has a Catalan version) puntCAT can be found at: http://www.puntcat.cat/

AFAIK every .cat domain has to have at least one web page in catalan. This is to prevent it being a vanity silly domain

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by wcoenen »

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…

A TLD can have an A record. For example, http://ac/ leads to a webpage.

Also, RFC 5321 explicitly mentions the possibility of email addresses where the domain consists of just a TLD: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.3.5

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by jerf »

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.

Pros: The registry makes a lot of money on an ongoing basis.

Cons: Internet nerds whine a lot.

It was unfortunately a no-brainer for them.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by user24 »

grotos wrote: post #10
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…

I wonder if we see a change of domains from e.g. drive.google.com to google.drive. Google can use .plus domain to simplify links to Google+ profile. I would really like to see something like user-name.plus/photos.

really? "dot plus"? For a general consumer product?

I know it worked for slash dot dot org, but their target was geeks.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by yahelc »

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…

Oracle wants .java and .oracle

VeriSign applied for all the various internationalized versions of ".com" in all the different allowed languages. (ie, קוֹם)

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by user24 »

goatforce5 wrote: post #99
makecheck wrote: post #20

Yeesh...in case there was any doubt beforehand that this is a terrible idea, the initial list is now proof. They have taken something that has a valid technical reason to exist and turned it into a cesspool. Hopefully those in control of infrastructure take a stand and simply reject these "domains" entirely. Shouldn't be hard to set up sanity-restoring filters...let us please just pretend these are spam domains and n…

> Ironically anyone vain enough to reserve ". " is surely ALSO going to keep a death grip on " .com" Monter (the job people) and Monster (the expensive audio product people) are both going for .monster How do they resolve that? Toss a coin? Auction it?

It's ICANN! It'll be an auction.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by goatforce5 »

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…

There's already a ton of [big company]sucks.com domains out there. Once you reach a certain size you need to go register those domains as a defensive measure.

The .sucks people will make a crazy amount of money in registration fees for domains that will never ever be used.

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