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Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by jack-r-abbit »

nirvana wrote: post #138
mustpax wrote: post #109

Top 20 most wanted TLDs: $ cut -d, -f1

It is a real shame there isn't an association of independant app developers that applied for the .app TLD. I am dubious about Amazon or Google owning it, as they may restrict it only to apps that are in their respective stores.

If ICANN is unable to determine the clear winner on merits alone, the gTLD goes up for auction. What are the chances that an association of independant app developers would be able to outbid Amazon or Google anyway. Their only shot would be if ICANN decided they deserved it more and gave it to them without auction. That is a $200K gamble.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

nextstep wrote: post #144
wcoenen wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

http://ac/ didn't work for me.

nslookup

Non-authoritative answer: Name: ac Address: 193.223.78.210

then again my upstream provider defaults to opendns.com so http://ac in the browser does not work.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by amac »

mustpax wrote: post #109

Top 20 most wanted TLDs: $ cut -d, -f1

This demonstrates the areas where you can make money online. It's not surprising that .app is the most in demand either, it's clear where the future money is in the Internet economy.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by jack-r-abbit »

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'm not sure what to make of Apple only asking for .apple. Do they just not think this is worth getting into (I'd agree with that) OR have they been the most sneaky and used some shells to hide their other applications. I assumed they'd at least want to throw they hat into the ring for .app or .cloud or .book.

I'm also concerned about the gTLDs that are file extensions. I think that could be confusing at best... and a disaster as worst.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by jack-r-abbit »

rod110 wrote: post #133
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…

Biggest hitter: Daniel Schindler from donuts.com Filed under several applicants names. Got 307 TLD request

That cost them roughly $57M. Holy crap that seems like a lot of money. On top of that, every one of those applications seems to be from a different LLC (the names are nonsensical and look generated from a small list of words). The additional cost in setting up and managing that many shell companies... crazy.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by rachelbythebay »

icebraining wrote: post #147
rachelbythebay wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-le…

Browsers assume you want to search for 'ac', you need to put http://ac explicitly. I wonder if they'll change that behavior now.

That ("fixup") and the other leak-to-Google stuff ("keywords") are probably the first two things I turn off when I start using a browser. I had too many mispastes turn into potential data leaks before figuring that out.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by pferde »

ceejayoz wrote: post #112
pferde wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that's what I noticed as first thing when opening that page. They're not even obscured in the html code. I thought ICANN were professionals.

Professionals know that "obscured in the HTML code" means nothing against today's collection bots.

Of course, best thing would be not including the addresses at all (that's what professionals would do), but if they deemed it necessary, "obscuring" the addresses would at least stop the most rudimentary harvesters. Also, why the downvotes? Have I offended anyone?
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