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Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by rfugger »

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…

I should have applied for .localhost.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by bbatchelder »

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?

I believe they cannot just toss a coin - there has to be an element of skill - so they are using a "digital archery" approach.

The user sets a time in the future, and then later must come back and click a button as close to that time as possible. Then users are ranked by the delta between their target time and actual time.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by seanconaty »

Please, if you don't like the idea of this, comment on https://gtldcomment.icann.org/comments-feedback/programfeedb...

This would be all sorts of horrible if it passed.

It's bad for security, it's bad for usability, it will probably break stuff, it's unfair. There is also no benefit to it.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by duskwuff »

My three personal least-favorites:

.DOTAFRICA (what is this I don't even)

.CASHBACKBONUS (by Discover Financial Services -- wtf?)

.TRAVELERSINSURANCE, .NORTHLANDINSURANCE, and .NORTHWESTERNMUTUAL (three-way tie for the longest applications)

And dishonorable mention to every company that's applying for their own business names and/or trademarks. Which is, by my best estimate, probably at least half of the total applications.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by goblin89 »

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.

Seems like exposing readable unique resource identifiers inevitably brings some sort of confusion and/or unjustness.

The only fair alternative would be no visible URIs (UUIDs or plain IPs could be used) and better search. There still is the ordering of results and SEO issues, but it's up to user—change your query or search engine if you aren't satisfied. The security issue (phishing) would require a bit more work to sort out, but I'm sure that's doable.

Domain names could still be used, but strictly for basic infrastructure-related things, like search engine directory.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by T-hawk »

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #100

Vanity, my favorite sin. I can't imagine when people start registering their names: britney.spears, lady.gaga, kim.kardashian This will be a huge money making machine, retarded but huge.

And the Kardashians can even split the cost three ways.

But the Baldwin brothers could go four.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by seanconaty »

seanconaty wrote: post #163

Please, if you don't like the idea of this, comment on https://gtldcomment.icann.org/comments-feedback/programfeedb... This would be all sorts of horrible if it passed. It's bad for security, it's bad for usability, it will probably break stuff, it's unfair. There is also no benefit to it.

Here's what I wrote: Subject: Creates More Problems Than It Solves

Feedback Submission Date:13 Jun 2012 at 17:44:48 UTC

Feedback: ...and its only purpose is profit.

1. It's bad for security. This will make phishing a whole lot easier.

2. It's bad for usability. Humans have come to learn that .com (and its ilk) signifies a website address. With now unlimited TLDs the only way to identify a domain is by a solitary dot, if that.

3. It will probably break stuff. Many a software / regular expression out there assume that domains will end in a relatively small list of TLDs. The new domains will not work with this type of software.

4. There is no benefit. The benefits listed on this page http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/benefits-risks all equate to selling more Internet real estate and profiteering for the sake of profiteering. ICANN is abusing its power.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by d503 »

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.

It doesn't work for me either, but http://ac./ does.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by Someone »

jerf wrote: post #101
tucson wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

:-) Your post nicely shows why having a top level domain 'Berlin' could be good idea: without it you would not be able to find those German bike tours. Germany has top level domain de for 'Deutschland'; ge = Georgia (the country)
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