no .exe ?
http://virus.exe seems totally legit.
I clicked it.
New gTLD Applied-For Strings
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#142OMFG what the hell is with all the real email addresses listed - its a spammers paradise. You'd think they'd be all throwaways but there's a lot of real ones (eg. banks, communications) and also noticed a smattering of gov domains.
If you think spammers have trouble getting their hands on real email addresses, you don't really understand spam.
Also, if you're relying on e-mail obfuscation and other tricks (that usually just make it harder for legitimate people to contact you) to prevent spam from getting to your inbox, you really don't understand spam.
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#143Google 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…
Another heavy hitter: famousfourmedia.com, who are responsible for the majority of the "dot [tld string] Limited" filings. They seem (I suppose "claim" is more accurate) to be registering on behalf of many companies, but from my rough count (60 filings), they are pretty close to Google (about 101) and Amazon (about 76). Not to be too judgmental, but the site for famousfourmedia.com has so much stock photo that it hur…
Minds+Machines looks like they applied for 80 tlds. This is just going to get ridiculous.
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#144Is 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
http://ac/ didn't work for me.
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#145Check out Top Level Domain Holdings Limited's requests. Welcome to domain squatting 2.0.
That's Mind+Machines, and yes, it's a mega-landgrab. That guy has been going on and on for years about how amazing this will be and how everyone wants it. I cite: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090923_61_businesses_tell_ic...
It's a joke of a post of everyone who stands to make a pile of money saying there is community support for this.
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#146Google 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…
There was a $108,000 "evaluation fee" per gtld, so that's over 11 million USD in fees.
In view of that, I am amazed there are three applicants for ".sucks". Funny, mebbe. worth 6 figures tho?
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#147Is 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-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.
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#148Dumb question and maybe off-topic but what happens to the $185,000 you pay for a gTLD? Does that go to charity or the US government keeps it or what?
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
Holy crap. Just when you have faith in the system...
Why? The guy just registered the domain of his surname (he's called Uzi Nissan).
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#150Nissan Motor Corp is after ".nissan".
I would be amused beyond words if Uzi Nissan/Nissan Computer Corp also applied for ".nissan". ( He's current owner of nissan.com and has had a long fight with Nissan over the domain name. )