New top-level domains a money grab and a mistake: Paul Vixie

Post by icebraining » Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 11:12 AM UTC

jeremyjh wrote: post #29

NameNickHN wrote: post #13

This is not surprising but I fail to see the downside. The internet is complex already. The new top level domains won't add much to that. I think that there was no end-user demand whatsoever for more so-called DNS extensions, [or] global generic top-level domains (gTLDs)," he said. I run a lot of websites and it was a pain to find good domain names in the last 15 years. With all the new TLDs that problem is completel…

It is a shakedown. Companies already have to buy their trademark domains on multiple TLD just to avoid litigating them constantly. Now they will have to buy them on hundreds of TLD. Doesn't it mean anything that registrars were the only people asking for this?

Post by estefan » Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 11:29 AM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #31

jeremyjh wrote: post #29

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It is a shakedown. Companies already have to buy their trademark domains on multiple TLD just to avoid litigating them constantly. Now they will have to buy them on hundreds of TLD. Doesn't it mean anything that registrars were the only people asking for this?

Companies already have to buy their trademark domains on multiple TLD just to avoid litigating them constantly. Now they will have to buy them on hundreds of TLD. Either that, or they'll finally realize it's futile and stop that nonsense.

Post by DonHopkins » Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 11:53 AM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #24

perlpimp wrote: post #20

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host/domain name is way to overabused, people should be using info resouce to find the site they are looking for. This way chrome stepped in the right direction moving people away from domains. There can be other software/internet constructs to navigate to right result, domain names are just vanity plates. It helps it if it easier to type the domain up but only for maybe top 10 sites that you use. Those sites are alr…

what i have been noticing my redirect to search on unknown domain names has been failing more and more, cause is that there are too many domains other so if I type "domain names dog", browser can't send me to google anymore to find if there are domain names .dog, I just get host not found error. Domains can't have spaces, so if you type as such, you'll still get a search in any browser (that has search-in-URL-bar ena…

Post by nvk » Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 12:40 PM UTC

estefan wrote: post #33

icebraining wrote: post #31

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Companies already have to buy their trademark domains on multiple TLD just to avoid litigating them constantly. Now they will have to buy them on hundreds of TLD. Either that, or they'll finally realize it's futile and stop that nonsense.

Exactly. If I run a business at `10 High Street` I don't set up shop in every town and city on every road called `High Street`. If people go to number 10 in their town, they'll search again if they can't find my shop if that's what they're looking for.

Post by coldpie » Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 1:08 PM UTC

bachback wrote: post #16

joshmn wrote: post #2

I don't consider this a surprise at all. I see these new ads for things like ".digital" and ".media" and the only thing I can think of is using them for vanity, such as xyzcompany.media and then using that internally. It's a shame that ICANN is polluting the internet like this.

".com" forever? There is no reason we can have better naming systems. Consider ".io". It's often used by startups and signals quite a lot about a domain.